A smooth change of the public administration system may take 5-10 years that is of course unexpected to be accepted by the public. Therefore, most change projects are considered to be completed within 3 years. However, changing the public administration system is much more difficult than changing a large enterprise, not only because of the size of organizations and the complicated political system involved, also because of the different nature and functions in different government departments. Furthermore, life is too easy and stable in civil service. Thus, the elements of organization change and the change agents should be broadly deployed rather than focusing on one or two of these.
Regulatory government is usually a government with too much planning and regulations.
The facilitating government supports and leads people to a planned direction in major issues . Facilitation means organizing, leading, supporting, recognizing, encouraging and awarding. To support the information and knowledge economy, Asian governments should strengthen their management, marketing and IT functions to facilitate and to identify what, whom and how to support. Changing from bureaucratic to entrepreneurial governments Information and knowledge economy need creativity and innovation to reengineer processes and to promote new technology. A government that can support such economy must be an entrepreneurial government itself.