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- Consultants:
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Individuals who conduct specialized studies and recommend specific action plans
- Strategy:
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A plan that includes goals and actions to achieve these goals based on available resources
This article explores consultancies in the public sector and consultants’ role in strategic planning. Consultancies in the public sector pose different challenges when compared to the private sector. Radnor and O’Mahoney (2013, p. 1556) confirm that such differences between the two sectors have been documented, but “material detailing the impact of public sector engagements on the consultancies” has received less attention, and “there is relatively little literature that specifically focuses on the consultancy experience....”
Some organizations engage consultants for the preparation of strategic plans, while others do so “in-house.” However, whether strategic planning is an “in-house” effort or prepared by external consultants,...
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Slack, N., Narayan, J., Singh, G., Sharma, S. (2020). Public Sector Strategic Planning Facilitation: Developing Country Perspective. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_4147-1
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