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Policy Lifecycle Management
Policy Making - the process by which government organisations translate their vision into outcomes for the benefit of the community.
Government organisations are accountable to the general public for the way in which they spend public money to deliver services on their behalf. Behind each spending decision is a set of policies, strategies and plans that set out the corporate priorities and objectives of each organisation relating to the specific service or set of services that is provided to the local community.
Achieving best practice in policy making can be challenging. A good policy process is the vital underpinning of good policy development. A good process does not always lead to a good policy, but the risks of a bad process leading to a bad policy are very much higher.
For many organisations, policy making poses a number of challenges:
- Managing a collaborative, iterative process with distributed team members, some of whom may be external to the organisation
- Ensuring commonality of purpose across the team
- Engaging and consulting stakeholders to gather input and assess support for policy initiatives
- Gathering quantitative data to support evidence based decision making
- Meeting ever shortening deadlines under increasingly public scrutiny
- Meeting compliance obligations
- Delivering consistency in structure, quality and design
- Loss of knowledge, expertise and learning as people change roles or leave the organisation
Objective can address the challenges and unlocks significant costs savings through the adoption of centralised and standardised policy making processes across the organisation. In the current economic climate, with substantial budget cuts starting to impact every area of public activity, new areas for operational efficiency that enable the preservation of front line services is a key area of focus.
Objective’s Policy Lifecycle Management solution enables all participants in the development of policy to use a centralised shared platform. This reduces the costs of developing policies and helps policy professionals to develop policies and plans that effectively direct public expenditure and avoid unintended consequences.
The Policy Lifecycle Management solution enables policy makers to more effectively execute the tasks involved in policy making. While policy making is not a linear business process, there are none the less a range of common activities that are typically undertaken in the policy development process.
Objective’s Policy Lifecycle Management aims to enable organisations to achieve Best Practice in Policy development by providing collaboration, creation, consultation and management capabilities.
A best practice Policy Lifecycle Management framework, underpinned by robust and mature technology, can deliver substantial benefits for all policy stakeholders.
Elected and senior officials are able to defend policy positions and programs, backed by evidence and the decisions made during the policy making process. Engaing stakeholders in the policy development process mitigates the risk of unintended consequences and public opposition to policy and the programs that result.
Councils and central government agencies are expected to reduce spending while delivering against an increased workload. To enable policy makers to minimise rework, enhance their ability to reuse and share best practice policy artefacts and decreasing the time required to complete policy development projects will be welcome.
Public policy is ultimately about achieving objectives, with the main beneficiary being the community. The modern policy making environment is influenced by external stakeholders, empowered by technology, who desire and expect to influence if not shape policy. Harnessing the knowledge of stakeholders and engaging them in policy development process builds legitimacy and trust, keystones of good policy. Blending online and offline engagement processes, providing easy and transparent access to consultaiton information, allows interested stakeholders to engage through a various channels at a time and place that suits them, growing the evidence behind a policy and ensuring the intended policy outcomes align to the needs of the community.
National Offshore Petroleum Safety Authority
"Objective improves the reliability of our business processes while simultaneously helping to reduce risk within the industry."
Environmental Agency
"The Limehouse solution offers us flexibility, in addition to giving greater consistency and providing excellent value for money - key drivers in our selection process."
City of Darebin
"Objective has positively improved Darebin's knowledge management capabilities and operational efficiencies."
Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator
"Introducing workflow will help us manage the significantly increased number of enquiries and applications we receive from Scottish charities throughout the year in a consistent manner."
Scottish Natural Heritage
"Our solution now allows us to perform more effectively by managing information for the future and providing us with a complete corporate memory."
