Business Partnerships in Local Government

The Governance of Partnerships in Local Government

Partnering is often claimed to represent a solution small local government organizations (SLGOs) can resort to in order to manage innovation. However, especially when private partners are involved, resources and specialized competencies need to be allocated on the management of the partnership in order to guarantee that it will deliver a public value. SLGOs often lack such resources and this ca...

Institute of Local Government Studies ‘ We have to stop meeting like this ’ : what works in health and local government partnerships

'We have to stop meeting like this': what works in health and local government partnerships? Acknowledgements About HSMC HSMC has been one of the leading UK centres for research, personal and organisational development in health care for 40 years. Commissioning of healthcare and provision of healthcare outside hospitals have become specific areas of expertise in recent years, underpinned by a c...

Editorial : business partnerships : the formal , the informal , and the local

Nick Vonortas is the Director of the Center for International Science and Technology Policy and of the Science, Technology and Public Policy graduate programme of George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. He is also an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics. Professor Vonortas’ teaching and research interests are in industrial organisation, the economic...

Inclusive business through partnerships

Best Practices for Local Government Business Intelligence Implementations

The report develops best practices to guide local governments in implementing business intelligence (BI) systems. Fifteen academic sources were reviewed and categorized as: challenges in BI implementations, best practices in BI implementations, and lessons learned from local government IT projects. The sources examine BI from the private and public sector. There are limited sources specific to ...