Sean Lusk

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Why does government find it so hard to be
strategic?
Exeter University workshop Strategy and
Leadership in UK Administration, Friday 23
January 2009
Sean Lusk Head, Strategy Programmes, Research and
Consultancy
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• What do we mean by strategic?
• Why we need to be more strategic
• The causes of our current approach
• A medicine cabinet for government

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• Strategy, policy, delivery.

Strategy is an expression of what you want to
achieve, not simply what you will do. Remember it
is a verb, not only a noun! Policy ..the
process by which governments translate their
political vision into programmes and actions to
deliver outcomes - desired changes in the real
world Delivery.the change out there in the
system and in peoples behaviour. Outcomes are
almost all co-produced with citizens. Services
are important but only as means to ends.
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A medicine cabinet for government
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