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Dashboards and Scorecards: Executive Information Systems for the Public Sector.

Government Finance Review

| December 01, 2001 | Liang, Leo Yonghong; Miranda, Rowan | COPYRIGHT 2001 Government Finance Officers Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Web-based technologies are ushering in a new era of public management by disseminating information to key decision makers through portals known as executive information systems (EIS). This article describes the concept of EIS, identifies the features and functions of leading products, and discusses how EIS can promote strategic management in the public sector.

Understanding and managing attention is now the single most important determinant of business success.

Thomas Davenport and John Beck (2001)

The Attention Economy

Growth in the use of technologies such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems has exploded the volume of ...

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