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 radically different. The public sector is predetermined by regulations, insufficiently oriented towards service users, bureaucratized and hierarchically organized. All this is a barrier to agile project management that aims at providing project team autonomy, frequent and honest feedback to clients and other stakeholders, flexibility of project scope, etc. The aim of the article is to present a conception of a methodology for agile project management in the public sector and to discuss the issues related to its implementation in governmental organizations.

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Innovations are one of the major contributors to economic growth and sustainability, and innovation networks play a crucial role in the development, implementation and diffusion of new knowledge. They form connections between business and academic circles, offer ample opportunities for sharing key recourses, provide diverse knowledge, and facilitate the exchange of ideas. When enterprises participate in the networks, successful and sustainable outcomes are not guaranteed, those depend on many circumstances and have to be earned by proactive and determined actions. The main determinants for the sustainable positive results from the network’s activities are summarized in the paper in four groups: network structure, social capital, geographical localization and academic cooperation, firm’s policy and innovation culture. They could facilitate or detriment the beneficial effects and sustainability, increasing the importance of both organizational commitments through systematic and targeted efforts, and the support of the public authorities, expressed in either various financial instruments, organizational and procurement procedures, or legislative initiatives that help networks to develop an environment for sharing knowledge and innovations, increasing competitiveness, and contributing to the sustainable economic and social development.

The purpose of the article is to assess the extent to which digital transformation policies in Bulgaria are modernized and receptive to new multi-sectoral reform approaches. Criteria were developed to evaluate the alignment of government documents with one or more strategic paradigms. An analysis was conducted on eight strategic documents related to digital transformation in Bulgaria, developed after 2010. This analysis utilized the Grounded Theory Coding procedure for inductive category development and applied codes from the criteria framework. Atlas.ti software was used for textual analysis, which provided quantitative data on the frequency of codes meeting the defined criteria for each strategic paradigm. The initial document evaluation was complemented by a qualitative content analysis to clarify the criterion-based findings and further explore the influence of different paradigms. In-depth interviews with representatives from public sector organizations confirmed and enriched some of the conclusions drawn during the analysis. The study finds that (1) the traditional approach dominated the early strategic documents but was gradually displaced by New Public Management; and (2) the network approach is insufficiently represented in the vision and strategic goals of Bulgaria's digital transformation process.

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-pirical study of the state of planned activities in SMEs and the readiness for digital transformation are conducted, the data are processed by statistical analysis methods. Through deduction, induction and traduction, criteria for self-as-sessment of the digitalisation of the planned activity in SMEs are derived. The emphasis is on interventions to improve the digital competence of enterprises.