The core strategy is about finding the fundamental purpose of the organization and getting everybody and everything lined up to support that purpose.
Law, politics, and years of evolution have resulted in many public organizations having ambiguous or even conflicting purposes.
The core strategy invites you to clarify the agency’s mission and negotiate that clarification with authorizers—your boss or elected officials.
Above all, the core strategy compels us to focus. Public organizations are often asked to serve so many masters that it is virtually impossible to serve any well. We need to choose.
It's all about CLARITY:
- Clarity of Purpose: Clearing the Decks
This approach eliminates functions that no longer contribute to an organization’s goals through abandonment, privatization, or devolution.
- Clarity of Role: Uncoupling Steering from Rowing
This approach separates functions that have distinct objectives so that the organization may focus on a single purpose. This is accomplished by separating the provision function (“steering”) from the production function (“rowing”). It is also accomplished when organizations separate the compliance function from the service function.
- Clarity of Direction: Improving Your Aim
This approach improves government’s ability to steer by creating new mechanisms to define goals and strategies as well as ways to monitor progress toward these goals.
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