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- the organizations in the section of the economy that is financed and controlled by central government, local authorities, and publicly funded corporations.
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- Embarcadero Technologies Responds to Strong Demand by Government Agencies With Bold Strategy and Investment in Public Sector
- SAN FRANCISCO -- Michael Singer Joins Embarcadero; Brings 20 Years of Government Sales and Marketing Expertise From Technology Leaders Including Adobe, Sun Microsystems, and Apple
- Research articles 2005-06-15
- The Consequences of Innovation
- Although innovation is frequently heralded as the driver of the 'New economy', its myriad claims have yet to be substantiated. The paper surveys the literature and addresses some of the claims skeptically. It differentiates between the public and private sector prerogatives in order to understand why the public sector organization...
- White papers 2004-10-10
- Innovation in a Re-emerging Economy: Lessons From the Hungarian Experience
- A substantial body of literature exists on the role of innovation in stimulating growth. This paper examines the link between innovation, marketing strategy, the external economic environment and culture. It considers the experience of Hungary, a post-socialist country, which acceded into the EU on May 1, 2004, as an interesting...
- White papers 2005-09-27
- Strategy Management in the Public Sector
- To manage performance, organizations must plan and manage the activities that drive performance. But establishing the connection between detailed daily activities, desired high-level outcomes, and budgets is one of the biggest challenges facing management in the public sector today. This paper takes a look at lessons learned in the private...
- White papers 2005-03-01
- A Topographical Map of the Innovation Landscape
- This paper describes the construction and use of a topographical map of the innovation landscape. The purpose of the map is to provide a holistic view of the key factors that enable innovation (the so-called 'landmarks'), how well they are aligned to support the particular type of innovation the organization...
- White papers 2002-01-11
- The Balanced Scorecard in the Public Sector
- The government has made it clear that it intends to put performance measures at the heart of managing its strategy for the provision of services to the country. The Balanced Scorecard is a strategic management concept devised by Robert Kaplan and David Norton, and uses performance measures to articulate and...
- White papers 2002-06-01
- e-Government And Business Competitiveness: A Policy Review
- Nowadays fast changing world, the Information and Communication Technology ICT revolution and globalization have become powerful forces in boosting economic growth and competitiveness across nations. Technology offers the hope of helping countries use the economies of scale generated by information advances to cut costs while also improving productivity and service...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- Tying Down the Corporate Dollar
- The swathe of regulations that has swept through the corporate landscape in the last five years has proven particularly claustrophobic for IT departments. Because most businesses rely on IT systems to aid businesses processes associated with financial accounts, IT departments are placed at the very core of compliance - and...
- White papers
- Rethinking Risk: A Strategy For Improving Public Sector Sourcing Performance
- Governments are increasingly engaged in large-scale external sourcing of services, which vary from IT services to the provision of public infrastructure. Such arrangements are often almost impossible to reverse, and performance levels are difficult to assess. One crucial performance promise for externally sourced contract arrangements is that they will result...
- White papers 2006-12-14
- Knowledge Management as a Useful Tool for Implementing Projects
- This paper discusses the key factors for applying knowledge management as a tool for implementing projects. The increasing economic pressure within the public sector resulted in reform based on applied new technology for an improved service. Finally however the key factors for success are based on shifting the mindset. This...
- White papers 2006-04-20
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- How SMES Can Win Public Sector Contracts
- As the public sector looks to cut expenditure, smaller suppliers will have to work even harder to reach the top of the tendering shortlist. Understand the process Goal: Learn how to work within the public sector’s procurement process....
- Articles 2009-09-07
- Stakeholder Theory and Balanced Scorecard to Improve IS Strategy Development in Public Sector
- Implementation of the Balanced ScoreCard BSC in public sector organizations is more likely to succeed if the organizations already possess clear conceptions of vision, strategy and outcomes. This is a paradox, as the BSC holds the promise of providing apt techniques for supporting organizations in the strategy developing process. The...
- White papers 2005-06-13
- Economics: More promises – making the case for public sector cost cutting
- The fact that there has to be a general election by the first week in June next year gave this autumn's party conference season some extra spice. The economy is obviously high on the three major parties' agendas, the debate about future government tax and spending policies a central theme....
- News items 2009-10-21
- Lee Technologies Taps Elaine Wilde as Senior Vice President, Public Sector
- Company Expands Critical Infrastructure Services for DoD and Homeland Security FAIRFAX, Va. -- Lee Technologies, Inc. (http://www.leetechnologies.com), a leading provider of solutions which enable commercial enterprises and public sector agencies to avoid disaster and mitigate risk to their physical infrastructures, today announced the appointment of Elaine Ratigan Wilde, as...
- Research articles 2007-03-29
- A New BSC Architecture for the Public Sector
- In order to successfully apply the Balanced Scorecard BSC methodology in the public sector, the original framework should be adapted to fit the different needs of mission-oriented organizations. One of the most significant changes to make is in the perspectives' architecture. The architecture that organizations adopt is a key element...
- White papers 2005-11-30
- Organizing Process - Competency and Change in Public Sector Work Practices
- This paper discusses the processes of individualization and organizing being carried out under what one might see as an emerging regime of change. The underlying argumentation is that in certain processes of change, competence becomes questionable at all times. The hazy characteristics of this regime of change are pursued through...
- White papers 2005-06-10
- Symantec Vision Government 2006: Protecting Public Sector Infrastructures, Information, and Interactions
- Symantec Vision Government 2006 -- Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) executive vice president and chief technology officer, Dr. Ajei Gopal, will today open the company's annual public sector user conference, Symantec Vision Government 2006, by highlighting the company's strategy to provide the comprehensive protection necessary for today's government enterprises tasked with...
- Research articles 2006-07-11
- Public sector technical assistance.(Guyana)(credit received from the World Bank's International Development Association)(Brief Article)
- PUBLIC SECTOR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE. Guyana has received a US$4.76 million credit from the World Bank's International Development Association IDA to assist the government in building its capacity to meet the governance and poverty reduction objectives set out in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper PRSP. The project...
- Research articles 2004-04-01
- Less government—more wealth? On the macroeconomics of a smaller public sector in Europe
- Abstract In this paper, we analyze the reactions of European economies to a fiscal policy strategy aiming at diminishing the public sector. Within the framework of the MSG3 model, a macroeconomic model of the world economy, we perform several simulation experiments to explore the effects of reducing government expenditures...
- Research articles 2006-02-01
- Commerce's Market Development Cooperator Program reflects new partnership between private sector and federal government - Dept. of Commerce; partnership in manufacturing sector
- During the 1992 election campaign, President Clinton called for a new partnership between the private sector and the federal government as a cornerstone of his national economic strategy. Secretary of Commerce Ronald Brown has emphasized the same theme by calling for " ... a new partnership between the public and...
- Research articles 1993-10-04
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