The reinventor's fieldbook : tools for transforming your government

Abstract

THE CORE STRATEGY: CREATING CLARITY OF PURPOSE 1. Improving Your Aim: Using Strategic Management to Create Clarity of DirectionVisioning Outcome Goals Steering Organizations Strategy Development Mission Statements Long - term Budget Forecasting Strategic Evaluation 2. Clearing the Decks: Eliminating Functions That No Longer Serve Core Purposes Program Reviews Periodic Options Reviews Sunset Reviews Asset Sales Quasi Privatization Methods Devolution 3. Uncoupling: Creating Clarity of Role by Separating Steering and Rowing Flexible Performance Frameworks THE CONSEQUENCES STRATEGY: INTRODUCING CONSEQUENCES FOR PERFORMANCE 4. Enterprise Management: Using Markets to Create Consequences Corporatization Enterprise Funds User Fees Internal Enterprise Management 5. Managed Competition: Using Competitive Contracts and Benchmarks to Create Consequences Competitive Bidding Competitive Benchmarking 6. Performance Management: Using Rewards to Create Consequences Performance Awards Psychic Pay Bonuses Gainsharing Shared Savings Efficiency Dividends Performance Pay Performance Contracts and Agreements Performance Budgets 7. Performance Measurement: The Critical Competency THE CUSTOMER STRATEGY: PUTTING THE CUSTOMER IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT 8. Competitive Customer Choice: Making Customers Powerful Through Choice and Competition Competitive Public Choice Systems Vouchers Customer Information Systems Brokers 9. Customer Quality Assurance: Making Organizations Accountable for Service Quality Service Standards Quality Guarantees Redress Complaint Systems Customer Councils and Boards Customer Service Agreements Customer Voice: A Critical Competence THE CONTROL STRATEGY: SHIFTING CONTROL AWAY FROM THE TOP AND CENTER 10. Organizational Empowerment: Giving Managers the Power to Manage Decentralizing Administrative Controls Site - Based Management Waiver Policies Opting Out for Chartering Beta Sites Reinvention Laboratories Intergovernmental Deregulation Mass Organizational Deregulation 11. Employee Empowerment: Giving Frontline Employees the Power to Improve Results Delayering Management Organizational Decentralization Breaking Up Functional SilosLabor - Management Partnership Work Teams Self - Directed Teams Employee Suggestion Programs 12. Community Empowerment: Giving Communities the Power to Solve Their Own Problems Empowerment Agreements Community Governance Bodies Community Visioning and Goal Setting Collaborative Planning Community - Based Funding Asset Transfers to Communities THE CULTURE STRATEGY: DEVELOPING AN ENTREPRENEURIAL CULTURE 13. Changing Habits: Creating a New Culture by Introducing New Experiences Meeting the Customers Walking in the Customer's Shoes Job Rotation Internships & Externships Cross Walking & Cross Talking Institutional Sponsors Contests Large - Scale, Real - Time Strategic Planning WorkOuts Hands - On Organizational Experiences Redesigning Work 14. Touching Hearts: Developing a New Covenant Within Your Organization Creating New Symbols Telling New Stories Celebrating Success Honoring Failure New Rituals Investing in the Workplace Redesigning the Workplace Investing in Employees Bonding Events Sending Valentines 15. Winning Minds: Changing Employees' Mental Models Surfacing the Givens Benchmarking Performance Site Visits Learning Groups Creating a Sense of Mission Building a Shared Vision Articulating Organizational Values, Beliefs, and Principles Using New Language In - House Schoolhouses Orienting New Members Appendix: General Resources

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