1st Edition

Strategic Policy Design A Practitioner's Guide to Statecraft

By Jack C. Chow Copyright 2020
204 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Modern organizations, whether public or private, are animated by a universal imperative: to achieve prominent goals that fulfill their mandates and uphold deeply held values and ideals. To realize this imperative, leaders entrusted to pursue organizational missions need to exercise a core set of strategic skills, discern opportunities, identify worthy goals, and implement pursuing actions.... Read more

List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part 1 The Strategic Mission. Chapter 1 The VIPs of Leadership. Chapter 2 The Strategic Mission Cycle. Chapter 3 The Strategic Mission Triads. Part 2. The Strategic Domain. Chapter 4 Assessing Actors and Factors. Chapter 5 The Line System for Domain Analysis. PART 3 The Strategic Goal. Chapter 6 Assessing Capabilities. Chapter 7 Goal Crafting. Chapter 8 Heuristic Cascade of a Strategic Goal. PART IV The Strategic Plan. Chapter 9 The POSTERS Roadmap to the Goal. Chapter 10 The Line Elements of a Strategic Plan. Chapter 11 Heuristic Cascade of a Strategic Plan. Chapter 12 Communications Tools.  Index.

Biography

Jack C. Chow served as U.S. Ambassador and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for global health and science issues during the presidency of George W. Bush, and he subsequently was Assistant Director-General at the World Health Organization. He held posts within the legislative and executive branches of the U.S. government and was a consultant at RAND Corporation and McKinsey & Company. He is a Distinguished Service Professor (adjunct) in the Washington, D.C. program of Carnegie Mellon University, Heinz School of Public Policy and Management.