Reporting for duty, by Tony Travers

Reporting for duty, by Tony Travers (PF 5/1/07)

- Government fondness for evidence based policy -> strategic planning, Design lens. Possibly way of avoiding making decisions.

-  Culture affecting strategy. New Labour’s consumerist culture leads to certain strategies. Prospector culture vs. traditional defender culture.

Work in progress, by Mark Conrad

Work in progress, by Mark Conrad (PF 17/8/07)

Discussion of new green paper on getting the long term unemployed into work. Government’s use of reports like this is an indication of the use of strategic planning systems – there is a heavy reliance on data and statistics to support conclusions. Equally, the article shows a lot of stakeholders with concerns: inside the government, charities, thinktanks, civil servants and trade unions