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Strategy Survival Guide

Prime Minister's Strategy Unit

Version 2.1

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Strategy Development
> Justification & Set Up
- Task: Justifying the project
- Task: Clarifying the issues
- Task: Planning the project
- Task: Setting up the team
- Output: Project proposal & plan
- Management issues
- Questions to ask
 
> Research & Analysis
- Task: Gathering knowledge
- Task: Analysing knowledge
- Task: Reviewing organisational capacity
- Output: Interim analytical report
- Management issues
- Questions to ask
 
> Strategic Direction Setting
- Task: Developing guiding principles
- Task: Articulating a vision
- Task: Defining strategic aims and objectives
- Output: Preferred strategic direction
- Management issues
- Questions to ask
 
> Policy & Delivery Design
- Task: Developing policy options
- Task: Detailing policy options
- Task: Appraising policy options
- Task: Planing the roll out
- Output: Final report & delivery plan > template
- Management issues
- Questions to ask
 
Strategy Skills
> Managing People and the Project
  - Recruiting a team > in practice
- Building a team > in practice
- Working as a team > in practice
- Encouraging creativity > in practice
- Giving & receiving feedback > in practice
- Developing the plan > in practice
- Structuring the work > in practice
- Setting milestones > in practice
- Managing risks > in practice
- Defining accountability > in practice
- Evaluating the project > in practice
 
> Managing Stakeholders and Communications
  - Identifying key stakeholders and their issues > in practice
- Effectively engaging with stakeholders > in practice > template
- Developing a stakeholder engagement plan > template
- Drawing up a communications plan > in practice
- Communication with the media > in practice
- Evaluating communications
- Preparing presentations > in practice
 
> Structuring the Thinking
- Issue trees > in practice > template
- First principles thinking > in practice
- SWOT > in practice
- PESTLE > in practice
- Systems thinking > in practice
- Creativity techniques > in practice
 
> Building an Evidence Base
- Data types & sources > in practice
- Surveys > in practice
- Interviews & focus groups > in practice
- Modelling > in practice
- Market analysis > in practice
- Organisational analysis > in practice > template
- International comparisons > in practice
- Benchmarking > in practice
- Forecasting > in practice
- Scenario development > in practice
- Counterfactual analysis > in practice
 
> Appraising Options
- Multi-criteria analysis > in practice
- Cost-benefit & cost-effectiveness analysis > in practice
- Rationale for government intervention > in practice
 
> Planning Delivery
- Change management > in practice
- Institutional change > in practice
- Designing an implementation plan > in practice

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