Making the most of mess : reliability and policy in today's management challenges / Emery Roe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roe, Emery.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Policy sciences--Decision making.

Policy sciences.

Infrastructure (Economics)--Management.

Infrastructure (Economics).

Risk management.

Reliability (Engineering).

Physical Description:

x, 206 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2013.

Summary:

In Making the Most of Mess, Emery Roe emphasizes that policy messes cannot be avoided or cleaned up; they need to be managed. He shows how policymakers and other professionals can learn these necessary skills from control operators who manage large critical infrastructures such as water supplies, telecommunications systems, and electricity grids. The ways in which they prevent major accidents and failures offer models for policymakers and other professionals to manage the messes they face. Throughout Roe focuses on the global financial mess of 2008 and its ongoing aftermath, showing how mismanagement has allowed it to morph into other national and international messes. More effective management is still possible for this and many other policy messes but that requires better recognition of patterns and formulation of scenarios, as well as the ability to translate pattern and scenario into reliability. Developing networks of professionals who respond to messes is particularly important Roe describes how these networks enable the avoidance of bad or worse messes, take advantage of opportunities resulting from messes, and address societal and professional challenges. In addition to finance, he draws from a wide range of case material in other policy arenas. Roe demonstrates that knowing how to manage policy mosses is the best approach to preventing crises. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introducing policy messes, management, and their managers

When reliability is mess management

The wider framework for managing mess reliably : hubs, skills, and the domain of competence

Bad mess management

Good mess management

Societal challenges

Professional challenges

How we know that the policy mess is managed better.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [175]-200) and index.

ISBN:

9780822353072

0822353075

9780822353218

0822353210

OCLC:

798613307