Transitions to Competitive Government
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Describes how private-sector management strategies can help governments obtain greater access to global resources, create more jobs, and provide better social services to their citizens.
Transitions to Competitive Government demonstrates how government can add value to a region, a nation, a state, its citizens, and their social values through speed, consensus, and performance. It does this in three stages. First, it shows competitive government to be entrepreneurial in seeking resources, jobs, and social services. Second, it provides case studies that offer examples of the challenges faced, strategies utilized, and implementing processes employed by various levels of government. Third, it explicates a global benchmarking process for evaluating government reforms and their progress in yielding increased competitiveness.
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Ronald B. Cullen is CEO of Performance Management Solutions, Australia. Donald P. Cushman is CEO of The Cushman Group and Professor Emeritus of Communication, University at Albany, State University of New York. He has written many books, including High-Speed Management and Organizational Communication in the 1990s: A Reader, coedited with Sarah Sanderson King, also published by SUNY Press.
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Acknowledgments
1. Government in Crises
Part I. A Vision to Guide Government Reform
2. Lessons from Business
3. The Management of Transitions to National Competitiveness
4. Implementation Strategies for Competitive Government
5. Responding to External Pressures: Value-Chain Coalignment and the Delivery of Government Services
6. Leadership Strategies for Transforming Governmental Competitiveness
Part II. A Management Platform for Government Change
7. The Challenge of Transition
8. Planning and Evaluation Strategies for Competitive Government
9. Reinventing and Reengineering Government Management Systems and Values
10. Resource Management Strategies for Competitive Government
11. Governance Systems and Management Reform
Part III. Benchmarking the Transition to Competitive Government
12. Managing Transitions to National Competitiveness
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