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Systems Thinking in the Public Sector

Paperback • 2008 • English

Systems Thinking in the Public Sector

By John Seddon

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The free market has become the accepted model for the public sector. Politicians on all sides compete to spread the gospel. And so, in the UK and elsewhere, there's been massive investment in public sector 'improvement', 'customer choice' has been increased and new targets have been set and refined. But our experience is that things haven't changed much. This is because governments have invested in the wrong things. Belief in targets, incentives and inspection; belief in economies of scale and s...Show more

Social theory
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ISBN

9780955008184

Publisher

Triarchy Press

Published year

2008

Language

English

Original title

Systems Thinking in the Public Sector

Format

Paperback

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