Evelina ParashkevovaD. A. Tsenov Academy of Economics - Svishtov · DEPARTMENT OF STRATEGIC PLANNING
Evelina Parashkevova
Ph. D
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Publications (22)
The purpose of the paper is to identify the key competencies in the public sector in the digital age and to analyze the main challenges facing higher education in the process of training students and practitioners. The issues of the necessary competencies are addressed in a broad framework of interaction between different stakeholders in the proces...
Integrated territorial investments are a fundamentally new approach to the implementation of regional policy. The approach requires decentralization of the decision-making process and active participation of citizens in this process. The bottom-up approach involves identifying the needs of the community and looking for alternatives to meet those ne...
The study aims to outline the framework and the main challenges for planning in SMEs in the context of digitalisation. The object of research is SMEs in Bulgaria, subject – the planning function and its digitization. Through a comparative, critical analysis, the picture in SMEs and the challenges of digital transformation are outlined. An em-pirica...
The paper presents the main levels, innovative practices and barriers to digital civic participation in public policies. Digitalization is seen not only as a means of upgrading analog processes, but as an opportunity to create a fundamentally new type of tools for a fast, convenient and innovative way to involve citizens in the government of social...
Public sector planning has always been in the focus of research interests of scientists. The many functions that administrations perform and the broad spectrum of public policies that they manage require the implementation of adequate planning tools to ensure integration, quality and realism. Planning processes are accompanied by a number of proble...
The objective of the paper is to outline adaptable practices for the application of agile principles in higher education, further provoked by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the short term, agility can lead to more effective and creative ways to solve problems caused by environmental uncertainty, but in the medium and long term, it can be the basis for d...
The study presents current and debatable issues for the integration of the Territorial Agenda 2030 (TA 2030) in the strategic documents and public policies for regional development in Bulgaria. Some basic planning paradigms are considered, which are critically analyzed in terms of their practical usefulness and applicability. Based on a critical an...
The report emphasizes the role of the human factor, its knowledge and skills to ensure effective and efficient implementation of the integrated approach in regional development and achieving sustainability. The adoption of a new planning approach comes in response to the impossibility of tackling key issues in achieving cohesion between the regions...
The process of preparing documents for planning the development of the social sector in general and social services in particular is associated with a number of challenges. On the one hand, it is necessary to comply with standard normative and methodological regulations related to the preparation of a planning document. On the other hand, the dynam...
Abstract
The planning of social services in Bulgaria is carried out in a complex normative and institutional environment, which is constantly changing. Reform of the process of planning social services in the direction of their decentralization is underway, but for many reasons the reform is slowing down. This complicates the process of identifyin...
The paper examines the main challenges facing universities in Bulgaria. It presents organisational issues of risk management in the higher education system and focuses on practices that need to be changed in order to implement risk management. Based on comparative content analysis, it identifies key areas that should be the subject of intervention...
The collective monograph “New paradigms in planning” examines the problems of strategic and business planning at the national, regional and company levels in the context of theories, models and concepts of planning.
The topics in the monograph were selected by the participants themselves without a prior framework. This agile approach was adopted w...
One of the current approaches to improving business organizations is agile project management. It emerged in the software industry in 2001, but gradually entered other, non-software industries. However, the transfer of the approach to the public sector requires a specific transformation of the agile methodology, insofar as the two sectors are radic...
The article aims to present possibilities for integrating project risk management processes into public sector organizational risk management strategies. The relative isolation of project risk from management systems is a weakness in organizational functioning. Integrating project risk management processes into the overall management system and in...
Risk Management is an organized decision-making process that efficiently plans, assesses, handles, monitors, and documents risk to increase the likelihood of achieving project goals and decrease the likelihood that a risk would become a future problem. The introduction of agile project management as a methodology in organizations poses new challeng...
The article focuses on issues related to agile project management, the integration of risk management into the project management process, and some contributing points of the agile methodology to improving the effectiveness of the project management process. Risk is presented as an unforeseen event that may have a positive or negative impact on pro...
The subject of this paper is the need of active monitoring of public policies at each stage of their preparation, implementation and reporting. The purpose of monitoring is to correct deviations from the tasks and thus improve the implementation of the initiatives and facilitate the further implementation of the policy. The objective of clarifying...
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Projects (5)
To examine the properties of formal and informal networks, the approaches to their emergence, the forms of interaction within and beyond their conditional boundaries and, on this basis, deriving mental models that reflect the specifics of innovation networks and possible interventions to stimulate their development
Aim of the project: to study the degree of implementation of the regional strategies for the development of social services and to derive factors, models and practices in methodological and substantive aspects that can serve as a guide for experts at the regional level when planning tools for social support.
The object of study are the regional strategies for the development of social services.
The subject of the study is the quality of the strategies and the degree of their implementation towards the end of the programming period.
Goal: Creating a conceptual competency model of the planning specialist in response to the challenges associated with the widespread application of integrated territorial investment for development as a planning approach.
The object of research is the planned practice at different hierarchical levels in the context of the concept of integrated development.
The subject of research are the skills and competencies of the specialists engaged in planning activities in our country.
