Smarter Government: How to Govern for Results in the Information Age

by Martin O'Malley, Stephen Goldsmith (Foreword by)

Overview

This is the new way of governing.

The time has come for the rise of the tech savvy executive: an individual who innately understands the need to help the use of technology rise at the same level across the entire organization. In Baltimore and in Maryland, Governor Martin O’Malley has done all of these things and more.

Smarter Government: How to Govern for Results in the Information Age is about a more effective way to lead that is emerging, enabled by the Information Age. It provides real solutions to real problems using GIS technology and helps develop a management strategy using data that will profoundly change an organization.

Browse galleries, exercises, and resources supporting this book's ideas and concepts: https://www.smartergovernment.com

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781589485242
Publisher:	Esri Press
Publication date:	11/05/2019
Pages:	332
Sales rank:	1,100,657
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Martin O'Malley served as the Mayor of Baltimore from 1999 to 2007 and as the 61st Governor of Maryland from 2007 to 2015. He was the first leader to take CompStat—a crime-management system pioneered in New York City in the 1990s—and apply the same ideas at city- and state-wide scales. He currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland, with his family.

Stephen Goldsmith was the 46th mayor of Indianapolis and also served as the Deputy Mayor of New York City for Operations. He is currently the Derek Box Professor of of the Practice of Uban Policy and Director of Data-Smart City Solutions at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He has written The Power of Social Innovation; Governing by Network: The New Shape of the Public Sector; Putting Faith in Neighborhoods: Making Cities Work through Grassroots Citizenship; The Twenty-First Century City: Resurrecting Urban America; The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance; and A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Governance.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: A New Way of Governing

Chapter 2: When Disaster Strikes

Chapter 3: Collaborative Leadership

Chapter 4: A New Way of Policing

Chapter 5: Making Baltimore Safer

Chapter 6: CitiStat and the Enterprise of Governing

Chapter 7: Taking It State-wide

Chapter 8: Improving Education

Chapter 9: Improving Health and Well-being

Chapter 10: Restoring Our Waters

Cahpter 11: Preserving Our Land

Chapter 12: Protecting Our Air

Chapter 13: The American Revolution, and the World

Chapter 14: The Road Ahead

Appendix A

Appendix B

Contributors and Credits

Editorial Reviews

"This book shows readers how all of us in this Information Age can leverage the tools and tactics readily available to us to make the best decisions that lead to actionable results."

—Dave Grolling, The GIS Professional, May/June 2020

The GIS Professional

"Featuring a two page listing of the contributors and their credentials, "Smarter Government: Governing for Results in the Information Age" is an impressively informative study that is unreservedly recommended for community, corporate, political think tank, college, and university library Contemporary Political Science collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists. Exceptionally well organized and presented, it should be noted for personal reading lists of students, academia, political activists, state and federal politicians, governmental policy makers and implementers, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject."

—James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief, Midwest Book Review

James A. Cox

"Featuring a two page listing of the contributors and their credentials, "Smarter Government: Governing for Results in the Information Age" is an impressively informative study that is unreservedly recommended for community, corporate, political think tank, college, and university library Contemporary Political Science collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists. Exceptionally well organized and presented, it should be noted for personal reading lists of students, academia, political activists, state and federal politicians, governmental policy makers and implementers, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject."

—James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief, Midwest Book Review

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