Public bodies, commercial and non commercial state bodies and agencies and publicly funded organisations are required to develop and implement strategic plans with appropriate objectives and targets against which their organisational performance can be measured and assessed.

The Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies requires public bodies to have a statement of Strategy for 3 – 5 years ahead.

Monitoring strategy implementation, assessing performance and revision of strategy, where required, is a critical responsibility for all those in leadership roles within the organisation, both at management team and board level.

This event will address the important issues of the strategy development process, review of implementation and reporting of performance. In addition to the presentations, there will be a wider discussion
involving a panel of expert contributors with their own insights on developing and implementing strategies in a public sector context.

Among the other issues to be discussed include: setting goals and objectives, environmental analysis, stakeholder consultation, cross cutting/ interagency strategy, the responsibilities of those in leadership roles, human resource and workforce planning issues.

The speakers, from different backgrounds, have specific perspectives and wide ranging experience on strategy development and implementation and will provide plenty of “food for thought” on these important issues.