Building a private company with a public vision in a highly competitive
environment is no easy task. It requires the humility to work with a
wide variety of partners and fellow travellers, the persistence to turn
a company into an institution and the staying power to establish trust
and brand name. These are the set of interlinked activities which will
allow us to do that.
Agenda Setting: early identification and exploration of
emerging strategic policy questions by close working with government,
private sector and civil society through conferences, working groups,
policy papers and media events.
Independent Policy
Reviews, Assessments and Commissions of Inquiry: to both estimate the
extent of current policy failures as well as to highlight cases of
policy incoherence, absence or failure.
In depth
analyses of competing strategic policy options and choices: in
developing national strategies, legal reforms, financing plans and
human resource development.
Change Management and
raising the efficiency of large institutions: by developing
institutional implementation plans, staff programming, sequencing steps
for key stages of the institutional restructuring process.
Dispute resolution and inter-agency negotiation: using specialised team of senior policy makers and industry leaders.
This is possible only when we have a team of eminent persons and
skilled institutional partners in each area of work. We try to achieve
this by promoting high degree of flexibility in our staffing and
advisory panels. This allows our senior directors and advisors to move
seamlessly between government, private sector, civil society and
academia. We also seek to achieve this by constant staff training on
the job, by multi-tasking and by staff rotation. Above all we take a
long view. We want Strategic Asia to be a lasting institution and not
just another company.
Series of discussions held from August to October 2009 under the theme of
“Policy Challenges for the New Government” in anticipation of the incoming new
government in October 2009.
Press Release New Strategic Asia Website While 21st century is expected to be the Asian Century, it is also not to be taken for granted especially since many expet that this is a foregone conclusion.
