Main topics of study:

Implications of Publicity for Strategic Management Theory

• Private Sector Model
• How Public Sector Management Differs
• Implications for Content Theories of Strategic Management
• Implications for Process Theories

Processes of Strategy Development in the Public Sector

• Framework for Strategy Development Process
• Strategy as Managerial Intent
• Strategy as Outcome of Organisational Processes
• Imposed Strategy

Global Influences on the Public Sector

• PEST Analysis
• Scenarios
• Five Forces Analysis in Healthcare
• Strategic Group Analysis

Trust and Distrust in Regulation and Enforcement

• Defining Regulation
• Regulatory Cycle
• Trust or Distrust

Benchmarking

• What is Benchmarking?
• Importance of Benchmarking
• Different Approaches
• Getting Started
• Making it a Success

Best Value Initiative

• What it is
• Architecture of Best Value
• Experience

Maslin Multi Dimensional Matrix

• Limitations of the Boston Matrix
• Montanari Matrix
• Maslin Multi-Dimensional Matrix

Stakeholder Mapping

• Power/Interest Matrix
• Creating Stakeholder Maps
• Establishing Political Priorities
• Ethical Considerations

Implications of Ownership for Strategy

• Government Ownership and Performance
• Implementing Change
• Organisational Forms

Formation and Control of Public Private Partnerships

• Partnering as Co-operative Strategy
• Types of Partnership
• Propensity to Partner
• Public Accountability
• Stakeholder Approach

Public Sector Partnerships

• Development of Partnerships
• Types of Partnership
• Propensity to Partnerships
• Characteristics of Successful Partnerships
• Adding Value Through Partnerships
• Stakeholder Relationships in Partnerships

Strategy and Structures in the Public Sector

• Managing a Portfolio of Services
• Synergy School
• Parenting School
• Centralisation and Devolution
• Organisational Configurations

Devolution and Control

• Analytical Framework
• Directors
• Tensions and Conflict
• Synergy

Business Process Re-engineering in the Public Sector

• Growing Critique of BPR
• Problems of Empowerment
• Problems of Commitment

Relationship between Quality, Approaches to Management Control and the Achievement of Best Value in Public Sector Professional Service Organisations

• Classical and Romantic Traditions in Quality
• Quality and Management Control Within Organisations

Mapping Organisational Culture

• Concept of Culture and the Cultural Web
• Value of Culture Mapping
• Mapping Organisational Culture
• Discussing Cultural Webs
• Identifying Blockages to Change
• Value of Re-mapping Organisational Culture
• Re-mapping Organisational Culture
• Mapping Strategic Change

Reading List

Main Text:
Kevan Scholes and Gerry Johnson, Exploring Public Sector Strategy, (FT Prentice Hall, 2000, ISBN 0273646877)