Enabling Collaborative Governance through Systems Modeling Methods

This work offers a preliminary look at how systems-based techniques and dynamic performance management can support collaborative governance. Its chapters present models and simulations drawn from several specific systems methods, showing how they can sharpen the focus on a shared problem and build a common understanding among those involved in collaborative governance, with particular attention to performance management.

A central theme is the link between the resources invested and the results achieved. By making that relationship explicit, the approach aims to help managers grasp more clearly how to refine policy and bring about favorable results that benefit the public.