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Since the 1980s, the language used around market-based government
has muddied its meaning and polarized its proponents and critics,
making the topic politicized and controversial. Competition,
Choice, and Incentives in Government Programs hopes to reframe
competing views of market-based government so it is seen not as an
ideology but rather as a fact-based set of approaches for managing
government services and programs more efficiently and effectively.
Published in cooperation with IBM.
The Department of Defense (DoD) is the largest organization in the
world, with operations that span a broad range of agencies,
activities, and commands. With an annual budget over $500 billion,
DoD employs millions of people that operate worldwide and maintains
an inventory system that is an order of magnitude larger than any
other in the world. However, the business systems used to manage
these resources are outdated and inefficient. DoD relies on several
thousand, non-integrated, and non-interoperable legacy systems,
that are error prone, redundant, and do not provide the enterprise
visibility necessary to make sound management decisions. In order
to meet current and future challenges, DoD needs business systems
that enable it to be flexible, adaptive, and accountable.
Transformation of business systems and process will not only reduce
costs and improve performance, it is critical for improving
warfighter support. Recognizing this, former Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld began a business transformation initiative in July
2001. This report is divided into two parts. Part I evaluates DoD's
business systems transformation effort, identifies lessons learned,
and make recommendations to improve the prospects for success of
the current business transformation effort. Part II includes
several cases studies of business systems transformation in the
federal public sector, at the Business Transformation Agency (BTA),
and in the Military Services. Each case describes a specific
transformation initiative and identifies lessons learned from the
experience.
'Sustainment' (as commonly defined by industry and government), is
comprised of maintenance, support, and upgrade practices that
sustain or improve the performance of a system and maximize the
availability of goods and services while minimizing their cost and
footprint or, more simply, the capacity of a system to endure.
Sustainment is a multi-trillion-dollar enterprise for critical
systems, in both government (infrastructure and defense) and
industry (transportation, industrial controls, data centers, and
energy generation).This book is a mix of engineering, operations
research, and policy sciences intended to provide students with a
thorough understanding of the concept of sustainability and
sustainable product life-cycles, and an appreciation of the
importance of sustaining critical systems. It starts from the key
attributes for system sustainment that includes data analytics,
engineering analysis and the public policy needed to support the
development of technologies, processes, and frameworks required for
the management of sustainable processes and practices. The specific
topics covered include: acquisition of critical systems,
reliability, maintenance, availability, readiness, inventory
management, supply-chain management and risks, contracting for
sustainment, and various analysis methodologies (discounted cash
flow analysis, discrete-event simulation and Monte Carlo methods).
Practice problems are included at the end of each chapter.
World-class, commercial supply chain management standards are now
exceptionally high. The best organizations measure order-to-receipt
time in two days or less, with near perfect probability. This speed
is backed up by nimble systems capable of rapidly responding to
unexpected contingencies and surge requirements. Unfortunately,
while the commercial sector has been rapidly adopting modern,
information-based supply chain systems in order to remain
competitive in the worldwide marketplace the shift to such systems
in the public sector has met with significant resistance and has
moved far more slowly. Transforming Government Supply Chain
Management provides the insights and expertise to overcome this
inertia. In Part I, the editors provide a primer on supply chain
management, an overview of innovative practices and tools, and a
blueprint for government-wide transformation. Part II consists of
ten case studies of public and private sector 'success stories.'
The intent of this book is to help speed-up the needed
transformation in the public sector."
World-class, commercial supply chain management standards are now
exceptionally high. The best organizations measure order-to-receipt
time in two days or less, with near perfect probability. This speed
is backed up by nimble systems capable of rapidly responding to
unexpected contingencies and surge requirements. Unfortunately,
while the commercial sector has been rapidly adopting modern,
information-based supply chain systems in order to remain
competitive in the worldwide marketplace the shift to such systems
in the public sector has met with significant resistance and has
moved far more slowly. Transforming Government Supply Chain
Management provides the insights and expertise to overcome this
inertia. In Part I, the editors provide a primer on supply chain
management, an overview of innovative practices and tools, and a
blueprint for government-wide transformation. Part II consists of
ten case studies of public and private sector "success stories."
The intent of this book is to help speed-up the needed
transformation in the public sector.
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