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Supported by the National School of Government in partnership with the Foresight Horizon Scanning Centre.

Featured Post | The Natural Choice New Natural England White Paper, introducing interesting ideas about how to value the natural environment. Includes impressive system thinking throughout with the 'eco-system' language.

Previous featured posts can be found in the Library

Selected posts from The Library

Title

Published Date

Description

Natural England Case Study

08-Jun-11

Case study outlines the moves Natural England have made to build a strategic and outcomes based approach to its work.

The New Zealand Geospatial Strategy

14-Mar-11

Geospational data is used in several ways in New Zealand and the NZ Geospatial Strategy Website is aimed at bringing together the geospatial community to contribute to the strategy. The website is based on the original strategy, which was published in 2007, but is constantly evolving to reflect changes in context and is strong on outcome focus. (Original strategy available at http://bit.ly/efCDyA)

2020 Development Futures

01-Mar-11

This paper, written by Alex Evans (currently based at the Centre of International Co-operation, New York University) for Action Aid explores the eight most influential drivers for change for development in the coming years. It is based on a range of futures studies and driver analyses (appended in full), and concludes with ten recommendations that Action Aid, or other development organisations, might use to prepare. It's a good example of how driver analysis has been used as a basis for planning. The paper is summarised in a blog post by the author, available at http://www.globaldashboard.org/authors/alexevans/

Know How Non Profit: Strategy for Non Profits

14-Feb-11

Know How Non Profit is a web resource for non-profits providing a wealth of information on topics like funding, income, campaigns, awareness, leadership and strategy. The 'Strategy for Non Profits' section provides a good introduction to strategic thinking and how it can be applied, includes input from practitioners and academics and provides case studies of strategic thinking. Overall a good resource on strategy.

Who does UK National Strategy? Further Report

25-Jan-11

This report follows the Public Administration Select Committee's (PASC) report on who does UK 'grand strategy', published on 18 October 2010. It argues that there is a lack of collective clarity in government on what strategy is, and without that it is impossible to engage with the committee's original recommendation - that government must reclaim the art of creating a national strategy that encompasses all of government's work rather than the current narrow focus on national security. It comes in response to the government's statement that the UK's national strategy is encompassed in the Coalition's programme for government, the National Security Strategy and departmental business plans.

Technology and Innovation Futures: UK Growth Opportunities for the 2020s

01-Dec-10

This paper, published by the Foresight Horizon Scanning Centre in the Government Office for Science, talks about the major technological opportunities the UK will face in the near future that have the potential to drive sustainable growth in the economy. The piece is a good example of horizon scanning, and the work can be used to back-cast conditions or events that must be in place at different stages from the 2020s to today to make this reality, to create a road-map to these futures, or to develop a set of indicators to track should one of these futures be emerging.

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Natural England

A case study looking at how Natural England have developed a strategic and outcomes-focussed approach.

FCO

A case study on the FCO's strategy 'refresh' in 2007, that enabled it to move from a department with a collection of disparate goals to one that was more focused on the value it was able to add to HMG's priorities.