Strategic leadership through performance management: FORESIGHT as PerformanceStat

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Houck, M. (2019). Strategic leadership through performance management: FORESIGHT as PerformanceStat. Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 51(3), 348–358

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ABSTRACT
Unlike the private sector, no single overarching metric exists to
evaluate public sector performance. Without concepts such as
profit, it can be difficult for government agencies to be accountable
to stakeholders. Unless organizations have a clear strategy that holds
performance to account, the organization can become pathological
and never truly succeed. Momentum has been building towards
evidence-based evaluations and management in government,
inspired by the use of evidence-based decision-making, made popular
by Michael Lewis’ book Moneyball. This article presents a platform for
adopting the forensic version of ‘moneyball’, the FORESIGHT Project, as
a strategic tool to set metrics as goals, develop ways to achieve them,
and improve the performance of public forensic service providers.


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