A $3 trillion-plus market is opening in nearly every industry as public executives at all levels search for innovative ways to close budget gaps without cutting services or ignoring infrastructure requirements.

To do this the public sector is turning to private enterprise to help reinvent the business of government, much as public-private collaborations helped us through the Great Depression and World War II. From city parking garages to state pension fund management to federal transportation projects, public executives are rethinking how they deliver services, which can be delivered more efficiently in collaboration with private enterprise, and which should be outsourced altogether.

This mega-trend, driven by economic necessity, will lead to unprecedented opportunities for innovative companies to create solutions that will help reinvent government and reinvigorate our economy. 

In her new book, COLLABORATION NATION, author Mary Scott Nabers draws on her long career—as an entrepreneur, a decade as a Texas state official, and fifteen years advising Fortune 100 companies—to show how this market works, how to identify opportunities, and what it takes to be successful collaborating with government.