SME Policy & Business Environment Reform
Cut red tape — business climate diagnostics and reform.
The executive challenge
The problem this program solves
Every layer of sme policy has an owner, and no layer has accountability: units report outputs, the ministry reports progress, and citizens report nothing changing. Every failed attempt makes the next sme policy reform harder to fund, staff and announce. You will trace money to outcomes in the Data Lab, run a delivery review under fire, and leave with a measurement system that resists gaming.
Context
Why this matters now
Capability
What you will be able to do
- Sequence sme policy reform so it survives resistance, turnover and the next budget cycle.
- Trace sme policy money to outcomes and defend the trace under scrutiny.
- Design sme policy policy that survives implementation: evidence, incentives and delivery capability.
- Present sme policy evidence at the cabinet table with brevity, honesty and stakes.
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 Initiative That Worked in Three Districts
One district doubles immunisation coverage using data, supervision and modest incentives; neighbouring districts with the same sme policy budget stagnate. The ministry wants to scale it before the next audit cycle.
Your decision: Decide what to scale, what to formalise, and what scaling will destroy if done clumsily.
IPAT Data Lab™
A a devolved county government cannot trace its spending to outcomes citizens feel.
Dataset: Synthetic expenditure and outcome panel for a devolved county government, 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
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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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