The strategic triangle: Mark Moore
Sources of Support
& legitimacy
Ability to say YES or NO
or to influence those that
can say YES or NO
Legitimate &
Politically
sustainable
Mission purpose
Question Zero i.e. what is it
that we are trying to
accomplish exactly
Three questions:
Authorising
Environment
is it politically and legally possible?
•
is the purpose publicly valuable?
Operating
Capacity
Organised & operated
The manner in which we
organise our resources
and use them to produce
desired outputs/outcomes
7
is it administratively and operationally
possible?
•
Public
Value
Proposition
Operationally &
Administratively
feasible
In partnership with:
•
Substantively
valuable
Supported by:
Three activities:
• managing downward towards improving the operating capacity for achieving the desired purpose
• managing upward, towards politics, to get or maintain legitimacy and support for that purpose
• judging the value of your imagined purpose
Moore M H (1995) Creating Public Value, Cambridge,
Massachusetts: Harvard University Press