Derek McDowell
Question:91 Mr. D. McDowell asked the Minister for Finance the action, if any, he proposes to take in relation to the report on the strategic management initiative. [16390/95]
Written Answers. - Strategic Management Initiative.
Under the strategic management initiative, each Department, in the light of the likely future developments in its environment and the challenges it is facing, produced an action-oriented statement of strategy setting out its high-level objectives, how it will meet those objectives, and how it will use its available resources to this end. I presume this is the report to which the Deputy is referring.
The exercise has been successfully completed within my own Department. The exercise now under way involves translating these objectives into specific strategies and activities to inform the day-to-day work of staff at all levels. The SMI is an ongoing process and I am satisfied with progress to date.