Regulatory Design & Independent Agencies
Design regulators that markets respect and citizens trust.
The executive challenge
The problem this program solves
The data on regulatory design sits in administrative systems nobody reads, while the decisions are made in meetings nobody audits. Institutions that cannot trace money to outcomes lose the argument for both the money and the autonomy. This is where regulatory design stops being a policy document and becomes a delivery system with an author, a cadence and consequences.
Context
Why this matters now
Capability
What you will be able to do
- Build regulatory design delivery and measurement systems that move outcomes, not activity.
- Commission regulatory design evaluation and read it critically — attribution, gaming and all.
- Navigate the political economy of regulatory design reform without abandoning rigour.
- Manage regulatory design programmes with fiduciary discipline and visible value for money.
The IPAT Course Standard
The five-day journey
Each day is a deliberate progression in managerial capability — from strategic context, to analytical frameworks, to applied practice, to executive judgement under pressure, to a capstone that produces something your organisation keeps.
IPAT Signature Case™
The Subsidy on the Cabinet Table
A subsidy now consumes more than the combined health and education capital budgets of a water services regulator. Two reform attempts ended in protests and retreat; a compensation scheme is possible but untested — and the regulatory design analysis exists for neither.
Your decision: Recommend the removal design, the compensation architecture and the political sequencing — with the cabinet watching.
IPAT Data Lab™
A a national statistics office cannot trace its spending to outcomes citizens feel.
Dataset: Synthetic expenditure and outcome panel for a national statistics office, with leakage and coverage gaps.
Your task: Trace money to outcomes, find the value-for-money gaps, and design the dashboard that changes decisions.
An expenditure-to-outcome dashboard and findings memo.
Data → Analysis → Decision, not Data → Code → Certificate
Day 5 · The Capstone
What will you change when you return to work?
Build the design and evaluation framework for your institution's flagship programme: evidence base, causal chain, measurement, and delivery governance.
Methodology
Frameworks you will master
- • IPAT Data-to-Decision Framework™
- • IPAT Transformation Architecture™
- • Cost-benefit analysis and regulatory impact assessment
- • Results-based management
- • Randomized and quasi-experimental evaluation methods
Cohorts
Upcoming cohorts
New dates are being scheduled
Register with your preferred start date and our admissions team will match you to the next available cohort — or contact us to arrange an in-house delivery for your organisation.
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