Organizational Sustainability to Support Trusted Smart Statistics: Istat’s Experience

Organizational Sustainability to Support Trusted Smart Statistics: Istat’s Experience In the scientific debate, the concept of sustainability has taken a broad connotation. In this work, we will discuss organizational sustainability applied to the production of official statistics, in order to demonstrate that this principle has to guide the change in the National Statistical Institutes (NSIs). The digital transformation pushed National Statistical Institutes to adapt their production processes harnessing new data sources, with the aim to improve the statistical information also in terms e.g. of timeliness and granularity. Such transformation process involves the entire organization with the purpose of guaranteeing the same levels of relevance, quality and trust as traditional statistics. Istat has recently established a Trusted Smart Statistics Center (TSS Center) to have a governance body that systemically guides organizational adjustment at a technological, methodological, ethical, legal, communication, and human resource level. The objective of the TSS Center is to capitalize the investments that Istat has made in European (i.e. ESSNet) and international (i.e. UNECE HLG-MOS) research projects, transferring the lessons learned and the knowhow acquired to new statistical production processes. At an organizational level, the TSS Center has the task of designing a sustainable organizational structure that helps and supports the individual company components to work in a systemic, coherent, and synergistic way to create the new Trusted Smart Statistics production system