{"product_id":"tools-for-innovators-creative-strategies-for-strengthening-public-sector-organizations-hardback-9780787909536","title":"Tools for Innovators; Creative Strategies for Strengthening Public Sector Organizations (Hardback) 9780787909536","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTools for Innovators\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCreative Strategies for Strengthening Public Sector Organizations\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSteven Cohen (Author), William Eimicke (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780787909536, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 24 March 1998\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages\u003cbr\u003e24.2 x 16 x 2.2 cm, 0.464 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"While many books hype the latest fad, here at last (!) is arealist's' toolbox designed for public administrators who need toknow the costs as well as the benefits of managerial theories andtechnologies.\" (Mel Dubnick, Department of Public Administration atRutgers University and former Managing Editor of the PublicAdministration Review)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A handbook of reinvention-style tools of organizational changewritten by people who have made it work.\" (David Osborne, co-authorof Reinventing Government and Banishing Bureaucracy, chief authorof the first National Performance Review report, and managingpartner at the Public Strategies Group.\")\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhile many books hype the latest fad, here at last (!) is a?realist's' toolbox designed for public administrators who need toknow the costs as well as the benefits of managerial theories andtechnologies.\u003cbr\u003e -- Mel Dubnick, Department of Public Administration at RutgersUniversity and former Managing Editor of the Public AdministrationReview\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Today's public administrators must be more than the effectivemanagers of their agencies' internal operations. In order to managea complex set of interorganizational relationships spanninggovernments, nonprofit organizations and private firms in a complexglobal economy, they and their organizations must be capable ofgreat agility and change. Effectiveness is a necessary but notsufficient condition for success: Today's public managers mustreach beyond competence to be creative innovators and agents ofchange.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This book introduces public sector professionals to a set ofinnovation tools: Strategic Planning, Reengineering, Total QualityManagement, Benchmarking, Performance Measurement and Management,Team Management, Privatization. It shows how to understand them,use them and integrate them into any organization, and how theywill take public managers beyond competence to be creativeinnovators.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The creative public manager must continually look for new tools andnew approaches. Tools for Innovators will help in this search, andin meeting and surmounting the challenges of a changing publicsector.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Understanding and Applying Innovation Strategies in the PublicSector.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Part One: Public Sector Innovation Tools.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 2. Strategic Planning.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 3. Reengineering.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 4. Total Quality Management.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 5. Benchmarking and Performance Management.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 6. Team Management.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 7. Privatization.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Part Two: Learning from Public Sector Cases.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 8. Management Innovation in the New York City Department of Parksand Recreation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 9. Innovation in Collaboration with Business and Nonprofits: TheIndianapolis Private Industry Council.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 10. 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