Public sector priority setting using decision support tools 

 - Oxford :  Blackwell Publishers Limited,  June 2001 
<br/><br/> The public sector is in trasition in many countries, including New Zealand, and many government departments have been restructure so as  to increase transparency and accountability in their decision-making by implementing fundamental changes to governance, accoutability regimes and information systems. New frame works are also needed for tasds such as priority setting, and this paper describres the framework developed to assist the then NZ Ministry of Agriculture (MAF) in setting priorites for the allocation fo research funds. this comprised a participative process including a series of workshops using both GroupSystmes software for electronic meeting support and Visual Interactive Sensitivy Analysis (VISA) software to facilitate a multi-criteria decision analysis