http://www.innovations.harvard.edu This vast section is on innovations happening within small and large scale organizations. It focuses on internal best practices that have dramatic external influences. The subtopics include administrative and regulatory reform, business and industry, e-government, human resources, labor relations, leadership, performance measurement and management, procurement, public communications and service delivery. There are several studies, articles, news items, and academic papers on innovations in achieving better management practices and organizational excellence. Organizational behavior, allocation of technical resources, and regulation of private entities are covered. en-us Copyright 2009, Government Innovators Network Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:59:00 -0500 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:59:00 -0500 info@innovations.harvard.edu http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/showdoc.html?id=4980 The COPS Program was designed to increase the scale of policing in America: "to put 100,000 additional cops on the streets." But the federal program was also designed  to change the predominant strategy and operations of American policing: from a strategy that emphasized reactive law enforcement, to one that emphasized proactive community problem-solving. To the extent that the expenditure ... http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/showdoc.html?id=3022 In 1992, Housing Policy Debate published John Kain's comprehensive review of the extensive scholarly literature on the spatial mismatch hypothesis. This hypothesis maintains that the suburbanization of jobs and involuntary housing market segregation have acted together to create a surplus of workers relative to the number of available jobs in submetropolitan areas where blacks are concentrated ... http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/showdoc.html?id=553487 Governments around the world can address many of society's biggest challenges such as the current economic crisis by becoming better at innovating. "The public innovator's playbook" report, published by Deloitte Research in the U.S. with Harvard Kennedy School's Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation, describes how governments have the opportunity to help improve ... http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/showdoc.html?id=7101 This publication is a practical guide for state and local managers and executives using performance measures to manage their organizations. From the Executive Summary:As a bi-partisan group of current and former government executives, business leaders, public management scholars, and journalists, we urge you to make results-focused management among your top priorities. We call on you to embrace ... http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/showdoc.html?id=5059 This research examines how nonprofit owners of affordable multifamily rental housing choose their approach to property management. It draws on existing literature on property management, insight from leading policymakers and practitioners, and survey responses from Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation's NeighborWorks organizations that participate in the Corporation's Multifamily Initiative ... http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/showdoc.html?id=3337 The authors found virtually all of the 18 states studied included dental benefits in their States Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) programs and the scope of benefits provided is quite broad, although not as comprehensive as Medicaid. Co-payments on dental services were nominal in most separate SCHIP programs. Several states used SCHIP to test new delivery systems — particularly ... http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/showdoc.html?id=7100 This publication is a practical guide for federal managers and executives using performance measures to manage their organizations. From the Executive Summary:As a bi-partisan group of current and former government executives, business leaders, public management scholars, and journalists, we urge you to make results-focused management among your top priorities. We call on you to embrace performance ... http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/showdoc.html?id=4997 This paper examines knowledge sharing processes in digital government projects (DGPs). Although knowledge sharing processes are a central feature of the functioning of government, they have received little attention in the literature. The importance of knowledge sharing has become even more evident with the rise of digital government initiatives, as these have a networking effect on bureaucracies ... http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/showdoc.html?id=2493 E-government reduces corruption in several ways. It takes away discretion, thereby curbing opportunities for arbitrary action. It increases chances for exposure by maintaining detailed data on transactions, making it possible to track and link the corrupt with their wrongful acts. By making rules simple and more transparent, E-Government emboldens citizens and businesses to question unreasonable ... http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/showdoc.html?id=2533 This paper integrates the largely independent literatures on networks and teams. The authors' objective is twofold: (1) To understand what constitutes an effective organizational network when much of the work of the organization is done by teams; (2) to examine the internal and external social capital needs of teams. We raise questions to guide future research, and point to potential ... http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/showdoc.html?id=102101 The Frontiers of Innovation conference was held at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), March 31–April 2, 2008, and hosted participants from more than 50 countries. The conference highlighted how governments can be more effective at solving problems and improving the lives of their citizens through innovation. The conference—designed by HKS faculty for senior managers, elected officials ... http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/showdoc.html?id=2598 In the first section, differences in the operational and cultural characteristics of for profit and nonprofit organizations are detailed with an eye to highlighting why many believe business firms have certain important advantages over nonprofits when it comes to competing for large human service contracts. The second section explores why public managers may need to structure service contracts ... http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/showdoc.html?id=2532 Authenticity has become a central concept in leadership studies, but the question of how followers assess the authenticity of their political leaders has not been addressed. With few exceptions, the literature on authenticity and leadership focuses on normative arguments rather than empirical study, and on the leader rather than on his or her followers. Normative models of leadership advise leaders ... http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/showdoc.html?id=16531 The Arab Regional Forum of Government Innovators was held in Dubai on November 13th - 15th, 2006 to provide a platform for interactive dialogue between practitioners, scholars, and policymakers to learn and build knowledge through a two-way exchange of experience and ideas. The material that follows was developed from that dialogue. Forum participants and presenters came from over 20 countries ... http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/showdoc.html?id=4969 Innovation: Applying Knowledge in Development underscores the critical importance of knowledge and innovation for development in every country. Responding to challenges in areas such as economic productivity, agriculture, education, gender inequity, health, water, sanitation, environment, and participation in the global economy will require increased use of scientific and technical knowledge. Technological ...