Trade & Industrial Policy for Structural Transformation
Industrial policy that moves economies up the value chain.
The executive challenge
The problem this program solves
Your budget is fully spent and your outcomes have barely moved: trade delivers activity, reports and workshops — everything except the result citizens were promised. Reforms that ignore incentives do not fail loudly; they fade into familiar underperformance and a new strategy document. This programme treats trade as a delivery craft: evidence before commitment, incentives before exhortation, systems before speeches.
Context
Why this matters now
Capability
What you will be able to do
- Design trade policy that survives implementation: evidence, incentives and delivery capability.
- Present trade evidence at the cabinet table with brevity, honesty and stakes.
- Build trade delivery and measurement systems that move outcomes, not activity.
- Commission trade evaluation and read it critically — attribution, gaming and all.
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 Dam at Two-Thirds
A flagship project at a national statistics office is two-thirds complete when independent review finds the hydrology assumptions optimistic and a cheaper alternative existed. Cancelling embarrasses the government; completing it strains the debt ceiling.
Your decision: Complete, redesign, or pause — and design the public accountability for whichever you choose, trade evidence included.
IPAT Data Lab™
The trade data at a water services regulator measures activity; nobody measures delivery.
Dataset: Synthetic administrative and survey data for a water services regulator — the two sources disagree.
Your task: Reconcile the sources, build the delivery dashboard, and defend it before a faculty "cabinet".
A trade delivery dashboard that resists gaming.
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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