Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Information resources management
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Information Management : Status of GSA's FTS 2000 Procurement
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Information resources management
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
GAO Documents
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
Book Description
Catalog of reports, decisions and opinions, testimonies and speeches.
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1388
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
Annual Index of Reports Issued in FY ...
Author: United States. General Accounting Office. Office of Public InformationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Reports Issued in ...
Author: A Five-year Plan, Meeting the Automatic Data Processing and Telecommunications Needs of the Federal Government
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Status of Open Recommendations
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Sharing Power
Author: Donald F. KettlPublisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 9780815720065
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
In the flush of enthusiasm to make government work better, reformers from both left and right have urged government to turn as many functions as possible over to the private sector and to allow market competition instill efficiency and choice. In fact, government has been doing just this for years: every major policy initiative launched since World War II has been managed by public-private partnerships. Yet such privatization has not solved government's problems. While there have been some positive results, thee has been far less success than advocates of market competition have promised. In a searching examination of why the "competition prescription" has not worked well, Donald F. Kettl finds that government has largely been a poor judge of private markets. Because government rarely operates in truly competitive markets contracting out has not so much solved the problems of inefficiency, but has aggravated them. Government has often not proved to be an intelligent consumer of the goods and services it has purchased. Kettl provides specific recommendations as to how government can become a "smart buyer," knowing what it wants and judging better what it has bought. Through detailed case studies, Kettl shows that as market imperfections increase, so do problems in governance and management. He examines the A-76 program for buying goods and services, the FTS-2000 telecommunications system, the Superfund program, the Department of Energy's production of nuclear weapons, and contracting out by state and local governments. He argues that government must be more aggressive in managing contracts if it is to build successful partnerships with outside contractors. Kettl maintains that the answer is not more government, but a smarter one, which requires strong political leadership to refocus the bureaucracy's mission and to change the bureaucratic culture.
Information Management
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government communication systems
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description