The Persistence Of Innovation In Government

Author : Sandford F. Borins
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press with Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815725602

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The Persistence of Innovation in Government by Sandford F. Borins Pdf

Sandford Borins addresses the enduring significance of innovation in government as practiced by public servants, analyzed by scholars, discussed by media, documented by awards, and experienced by the public. In The Persistence of Innovation in Government, he maps the changing landscape of American public sector innovation in the twenty-first century, largely by addressing three key questions: • Who innovates? • When, why, and how do they do it? • What are the persistent obstacles and the proven methods for overcoming them? Probing both the process and the content of innovation in the public sector, Borins identifies major shifts and important continuities. His examination of public innovation combines several elements: his analysis of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Innovations in American Government Awards program; significant new research on government performance; and a fresh look at the findings of his earlier, highly praised book Innovating with Integrity: How Local Heroes Are Transforming American Government. He also offers a thematic survey of the field’s burgeoning literature, with a particular focus on international comparison.

Author : Sandford F. Borins
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815725619

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The Persistence of Innovation in Government by Sandford F. Borins Pdf

A Brookings Institution Press and Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation publication Sandford Borins addresses the enduring significance of innovation in government as practiced by public servants, analyzed by scholars, discussed by media, documented by awards, and experienced by the public. In The Persistence of Innovation in Government, he maps the changing landscape of American public sector innovation in the twenty-first century, largely by addressing three key questions: • Who innovates? • When, why, and how do they do it? • What are the persistent obstacles and the proven methods for overcoming them? Probing both the process and the content of innovation in the public sector, Borins identifies major shifts and important continuities. His examination of public innovation combines several elements: his analysis of the Harvard Kennedy School's Innovations in American Government Awards program; significant new research on government performance; and a fresh look at the findings of his earlier, highly praised book Innovating with Integrity: How Local Heroes Are Transforming American Government. He also offers a thematic survey of the field's burgeoning literature, with a particular focus on international comparison.

Author : Fred L. Block,Matthew R. Keller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317251439

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State of Innovation by Fred L. Block,Matthew R. Keller Pdf

The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression has generated a fundamental re-evaluation of the free-market policies that have dominated American politics for three decades. State of Innovation brings together critical essays looking at the 'innovation industry' in the context of the current crisis. The book shows how government programs and policies have underpinned technological innovation in the US economy over the last four decades, despite the strength of 'free market' political rhetoric. The contributors provide new insights into where innovations come from and how governments can support a dynamic innovation economy as the US recovers from a profound economic crisis. State of Innovation outlines a 21st century policy paradigm that will foster cutting-edge innovation which remains accountable to the public.

Author : Sandford F. Borins
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815710301

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Innovations in Government by Sandford F. Borins Pdf

The Innovations in American Government Awards Program began in 1985 with a grant from the Ford Foundation to the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard to conduct a program of awards for innovations in state and local government. The foundation's objective was ambitious and, in an era of "government is the problem" rhetoric, determinedly proactive. It sought to counter declining public confidence in government by highlighting innovative and effective programs. Over twenty years later, research, recognition, and replication are the source of the program's continuing influence and its vitality. What is the future of government innovation? How can innovation enhance the quality of life for citizens and strengthen democratic governance? Innovations in Government: Research, Recognition, and Replication answers these questions by presenting a comprehensive approach to advancing the practice and study of innovation in government. The authors discuss new research on innovation, explore the impact of several programs that recognize innovation, and consider challenges to the replication of innovations. Contributors include Eugene Bardach (University of California– Berkeley), Robert Behn (Harvard University), John D. Donahue (Harvard University), Marta Ferreira Santos Farah (Center for Public Administration and Government, Fundação Getulio Vargas), Archon Fung (Harvard University), Jean Hartley (University of Warwick), Steven Kelman (Harvard University), Gowher Rizvi (Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard University), Peter Spink (Center for Public Administration and Government, Fundação Getulio Vargas), and Jonathan Walters (Governing).

Author : Alan Altshuler,Robert D. Behn
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815715722

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Innovation in American Government by Alan Altshuler,Robert D. Behn Pdf

Innovation does happen—even in government! Despite all the news about government scandals and failures, public officials are innovative. This book analyzes numerous examples of ingenious problem solving—in education in California, in the Department of Juvenile Justice in New York City, in government operations in Minnesota, in human service programs across the country. All organizations, both public and private, need innovation, but making innovation work in government is a greater challenge than doing so in business. This book identifies a number of dilemmas that complicate the process of innovating in American government. For example, there is the "trust dilemma": Innovation may be necessary to establish public faith in the ability of government agencies to perform, but before the public grants agencies a license to be truly innovative, it needs to be convinced that these same agencies have the ability to perform. The contributors to this book analyze a number of issues raised by the task of innovation, including: Who is responsible for innovating? How can innovative individuals and teams be held accountable? What kinds of organizational arrangements beget the most innovation? How can innovation be fostered in agencies devoted to routinization? How should innovative ideas be disseminated? And what exactly is an "innovation" anyway? The contributors gathered data for this book from winners and finalists in the Ford Foundation's Innovations Awards program, as well as from other innovators and innovations. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Babak J. Armajani, Michael Barzelay, W. Lance Bennett, Paul Berman, Richard F. Elmore, Robert M. Entman, Lee S. Friedman, Thomas N. Gilmore, Olivia Golden, James Krantz, Laurence E. Lynn Jr., Mark H. Moore, Beryl Nelson, Ellen Schall, Malcolm Sparrow, William Spelman, Deborah A. Stone, and Marc D. Zegans.

Author : V. Bekkers,J. Edelenbos,B. Steijn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230307520

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Innovation in the Public Sector by V. Bekkers,J. Edelenbos,B. Steijn Pdf

Addresses issues relevant to an understanding of the innovation journeys on which public organizations have embarked. If public innovation is defined as a necessary condition for establishing meaningful interactions between the government and society what are the relevant issues that may explain successful processes and forms of public innovation?

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264270879

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Fostering Innovation in the Public Sector by OECD Pdf

Public sector innovation does not happen by itself: problems need to be identified, and ideas translated into projects that can be tested, implemented and shared. This report looks at how governments can create an environment that fosters innovation.

Author : David E. McNabb
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0765639394

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Knowledge Management in the Public Sector by David E. McNabb Pdf

Author : Gregory C. McLaughlin DBA,William R. Kennedy DBA
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781498721585

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A Guide to Innovation Processes and Solutions for Government by Gregory C. McLaughlin DBA,William R. Kennedy DBA Pdf

This book provides a roadmap for successful implementation of innovation for organizations working as subcontractors or suppliers for the federal government. With a focus on the federal sector, it details tools and processes that can make significant improvements in how the federal sector handles innovation opportunities. Presenting insights that can help readers bridge the gap between supplier and customer, the book includes many examples and a case study that illustrate the application of the methodology. It also includes process flowcharts, tools, and strategies for innovation within an agency or organization.

Author : Alan G. Robinson,Dean M. Schroeder
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781523001781

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Practical Innovation in Government by Alan G. Robinson,Dean M. Schroeder Pdf

This book is a comprehensive guide to an exciting new approach that managers at any level can use to transform their corners of government. Whether people want more government or less, everyone wants an efficient government. Traditional thinking is that this requires a government to be run more like a business. But a government is not a business, and this approach merely replaces old problems with new ones. In their six-year, five-country study of seventy-seven government organizations—ranging from small departments to entire states—Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder found that the predominant private-sector approaches to improvement don’t work well in the public sector, while practices that are rare in the private sector prove highly effective. The highest performers they studied had attained levels of efficiency that rivaled the best private-sector companies. Rather than management making the improvements, as is the norm in the private sector, these high-performers focused on front-line-driven improvement, where most of the change activity was led by supervisors and low-level managers who unleashed the creativity and ideas of their employees to improve their operations bit by bit every day. You’ll discover how Denver’s Department of Excise and Licenses reduced wait times from an hour and forty minutes to just seven minutes; how the Washington State Patrol garage tripled its productivity and became a national benchmark; how a K–8 school in New Brunswick, Canada, boosted the percentage of students reading at the appropriate age level from 22 percent to 78 percent; and much more.

Author : Jacob Torfing,Peter Triantafillou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107088986

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Enhancing Public Innovation by Transforming Public Governance by Jacob Torfing,Peter Triantafillou Pdf

Drawing on theoretical research and empirical studies, this book examines how public governance can be transformed in order to enhance innovation. It scrutinizes the need for public sector reforms and analyzes how the gradual transition towards New Public Governance can stimulate the exploration and exploitation of new ideas.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264273283

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OECD Public Governance Reviews Innovation Skills in the Public Sector Building Capabilities in Chile by OECD Pdf

This report, the first of its kind on an OECD country, assesses the abilities, motivations and opportunities in Chile’s public service for contributing to innovation, and provides recommendations on how to further develop them.

Author : David E. McNabb,Carl R. Swenson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000407594

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Collaboration in Government by David E. McNabb,Carl R. Swenson Pdf

This book comprehensively explores the many different forms of collaboration in government, both formal and informal, including strategic alliances, intergovernmental networks, and public-private partnerships. Contemporary US governmental and public organizations are changing to better cope after several decades of pressures to downsize, as well as to deliver new services with declining resources and, in many cases, decaying infrastructure. To meet these challenges, public managers are developing new networks, partnerships, collaborations, alliances and coalitions to deliver government services. Collaboration in Government is designed to help public organizations parse the new and emerging forms of public partnerships and to develop the skills needed to manage them. Each chapter offers examples of how each type has been used in real public organizations, providing the reader with an understanding of how these partnerships may be applied in a variety of contexts, as well as lessons that may be gleaned from the successes (and failures) of these collaborative models. This book will be of interest to public servants who collaborate in their daily work, as well as students of public administration and public policy.

Author : Lucia Della Spina,Francesco Calabrò
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783039363049

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Enhancement of Public Real-estate Assets and Cultural Heritage by Lucia Della Spina,Francesco Calabrò Pdf

The management of cultural heritage and public real-estate assets is one of the most crucial challenges concerning the sustainable use of these resources, involving dynamic methods to stimulate preservation, development, renewal, and transmission to future generations of these essential assets. The contributions presented in this book provide a rich and varied panorama of research experiences and innovative tools, capable of promoting the re-use of cultural heritage in European cities and cultural landscapes, using a circular economy logic as a model of sustainable development. From this point of view, cultural capital becomes the driver of a regeneration process on the local, urban, and metropolitan scales, in which the transversal interconnections between the production cycles of the adaptive re-use of the available heritage, both in the adaptation and in the management phase, configure a circular process of multidimensional production of value. Therefore, future territorial redevelopment projects can base their idea strength on an open system of appropriately selected social attractors, whose enhancement and use have the objective of triggering widespread regeneration effects on the whole territory of influence, receiving inducement and resources to progress.

Author : Eva Sørensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000286762

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Political Innovations by Eva Sørensen Pdf

Political Innovations: Creative Transformations in Polity, Politics and Policy provides a theoretical framework for studies of political innovation as well as a number of empirical studies of innovations in the way policy strategies take form, in the exercise of political leadership, in community self-organizing, in political parties, and what implications informal governance has on political innovation. Public innovation has risen to the top of the agenda among governments all over the Western world. The message is clear: the public sector needs to become more innovative in order to meet the demands of modern society. There is also a growing interest in public innovation amongst students of public policy and governance, who are currently working to define and conceptualize public innovation, analyze drivers of, and barriers to, innovation in the public sector, and prescribe ways to make the public sector more innovative. However, researchers have so far mainly theorized, studied and analyzed issues related to innovations in public services and public delivery. Few have payed attention to the fact that public service innovation takes place in a political context, and that innovations in polity, politics and policy are fundamental aspects of public innovation. A comprehensive research agenda on public innovation should therefore include studies of political innovation. This book will be of great value to scholars and researchers interested in Public Administration, Policy Making and Innovation, Public Governance and Political Leadership. It was originally published as a special issue of the Public Management Review.