Powering Up: How Public Managers Can Take Control of Information Technology

by Katherine Barrett, Richard Greene

The first book in a new series with Governing magazine, Powering Up draws on the authors' involvement in and reporting of the Government Performance Project (conducted by the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and funded by the Pew Charitable Trust). Barrett and Greene focus on performance in information technology, looking systematically at the best practices of the cities and states that garnered high grades in this study.The book's nuts-and-bolts approach is meant to immediately benefit a city or state manager attempting to manage IT specialists as well as maximize the potential and capabilities of their IT systems. Readers will find real-world guidance about procurement, strategic planning, training, outsourcing, standardization, and management structures.

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First published October 17, 2000