Tools for Innovators: Creative Strategies for Strengthening Public Sector Organizations
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| Rating | : | 4.35 (639 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 078790953X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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"While many books hype the latest fad, here at last (!) is a realist's' toolbox designed for public administrators who need to know the costs as well as the benefits of managerial theories and technologies." (Mel Dubnick, Department of Public Administration at Rutgers University and former Managing Editor of the Public Administration Review) "A handbook of reinvention-style tools of organizational change written by people who have made it work." (David Osborne, co-author of Reinventing Government and Banishing Bureaucracy, chief author of the first National Performance Review report, and managing partner at the Public Strategies Group.")
Tools for Innovators will help in this search, and in meeting and surmounting the challenges of a changing public sector.. The creative public manager must continually look for new tools and new approaches. -- Mel Dubnick, Department of Public Administration at Rutgers University and former Managing Editor of the Public Administration Review Today's public administrators must be more than the effective managers of their agencies' internal operations. Effectiveness is a necessary but not sufficient condition for success: Today's public managers must reach beyond competence to be creative innovators and agents of change. While many books hype the latest fad, here at last (!) is a ?realist's' toolbox designed for public administrators who need to know the costs as well as the benefits of managerial theories and technologies. It shows how to understand them, use them and integrate them into any organization, and how they will take public managers beyond competence to be creative innovators. In order to manage a complex set of interorganizational relationships spanning governments, nonprofit organizations and private firms in a complex global economy, they and their organizations must be capable of great agility and change. This book introduces public sector professionals to a set of innovation
Creative Popular Tools TD This book sums up the some popular management tools to be used in public organizations with the intent of helping them to meet citizens demands of highest quality service. Including Strategic Planning, Total Quality Management, Re-Engineering, Benchmarking, Outsourcing, many approachments (or tools) that can be useful in restructuring public organizations are told in this valuable book. Readers who want to understand the basic principles of popular management tools developed for private sector organizations (but can be applied to . "nothing new" according to A Customer. Using the over-used word "creative" as a shield, "Tools for Innovators" rehashes common-sense and stale ideas as exciting new methods for public managers. Current and aspiring managers should avoid this platitude-ridden guide: It will not improve your managerial skills, only waste time.