April 2009 News
Budget 2009
On Wednesday Alistair Darling delivered what was a fairly dramatic budget when compared to recent years. Dramatic because of the forecasts it contained about borrowing and debt, and because of how these forecasts and the response of the government to the recession have been debated by the main political parties in the days since.
As always, the budget provided updated assessments and forecasts of the economy and public finances. In a time of great uncertainty, the Chancellor’s medium term...
Scenarios for policy making process and the public policy agenda in five years time (2014)
What impact would a re-elected Labour Government or a new Conservative one have on your organisation? What would the effects of this be combined with a short, sharp recession or a long, deep one? How would these possible changes affect the way your organisation develops and influences policy as well as the environment in which you operate?
The potential implications of a change of government and a recession are explored in these four scenarios which were developed with members of the NCVO...
Does good decision making in a recession require a culture change?
We would probably all agree that leading an organisation through the current recession presents significant challenges. But do these challenges require a similar method and culture of decision-making, or is a change required?
This interesting article from the US Nonprofit Quarterly argues that boards do indeed need to rethink their skills and culture in order to steer organisations effectively through financial crisis.
The article begins with a case study of an organisation that, although...
What will be the ‘New Normal’?
We are currently going through one of the most uncertain periods of history many of us have ever known so understandably, everyone is trying to make sense of where we’re going and as part of that, how we got here. Theories, predictions and blame games abound so it’s often hard to know what to believe. I spent a day a couple of weeks ago at a futurists round table organised by Stephen from the European Futures Observatory considering the answers to some of these questions in preparation for a ...
