Speaker: Jane Fountain, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst

  

Time: 12:30-13:45, June 4^th, 2014

 

Venue: Room 302, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University

 

Language: English

 

    This report provides useful insights into how the government can proceed in creating effective cross-agency collaborations that can improve outcomes significantly. Dr.Fountain notes that effective collaboration consists of two dimensions—people skills and organizational processes—and that successful leaders make strategic use of both elements to manage in a networked government. People skills are key to developing trust, norms, and connections essential to effective multi-agency initiatives. But leaders must also create in parallel the institutional and organizational processes that allow cross-agency actions to be sustained over time, such as formal agreements, defined roles and responsibilities, pooled resources, and shared performance goals.