Molecular innovation and molar scanning strategies for the adoption of new information technology (IT) in learning organizations

Article Abstract:

The Model Office project of the Dept. of Employment, Education and Training (DEET) in Australia provides a valuable case study on how bottom-up innovation and top-down environmental scanning strategies can be used to implement information technology (IT) solutions. The Model Office project stressed the education of users on the advantages of IT and its application in the public sector environment. It also emphasized what IT could do to aid decision-making within the DEET's organizational hierarchy. The Model Office project also stressed the importance of managerial support for innovation.

Analysis, Technological innovations, Organizational change

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Strategies for reinventing federal agencies; gardening versus engineering

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Implementing fundamental changes to an organization's configuration can be highly contentious. In order to successfully implement change, the change agent needs to adopt a strategic approach, determining the ways to gain stakeholders' support and minimize their resistance. The change strategies used by two federal agencies are evaluated and compared.

Public Finance Activities, Public Administration, Management, Civil service, Administrative agencies, Government agencies

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The dual potentialities of performance measurement: The case of the Social Security Administration

Article Abstract:

The Social Security Administration's use of performance measures is discussed.

United States, Administration of Human Resource Programs (except Education, Public Health, and Veterans' Affairs Programs), Admin. of social & manpower programs, Social Security Administration, Methods, Evaluation, Human resource management, Executives, Employee performance appraisals, Performance appraisals, United States. Social Security Administration

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