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Public Sector Priority Setting Using Decision Support Tools
Author(s) -
Mabin Victoria,
Menzies Malcolm,
King Graeme,
Joyce Karen
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
australian journal of public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.524
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-8500
pISSN - 0313-6647
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8500.00208
Subject(s) - accountability , transparency (behavior) , christian ministry , public sector , government (linguistics) , corporate governance , business , process (computing) , process management , decision support system , software , decision process , public administration , public relations , computer science , finance , political science , computer security , linguistics , philosophy , artificial intelligence , law , programming language , operating system
The public sector is in transition in many countries, including New Zealand, and many government departments have been restructured so as to increase transparency and accountability in their decision‐making by implementing fundamental changes to governance, accountability regimes and information systems. New frameworks are also needed for tasks such as priority setting, and this paper describes the framework developed to assist the then NZ Ministry of Agriculture (MAF) in setting priorities for the allocation of research funds. This comprised a participative process including a series of workshops using both GroupSystems software for electronic meeting support and Visual Interactive Sensitivity Analysis (VISA) software to facilitate a multi‐criteria decision analysis.