Strategizing as Function of Administrative Management

Abstract

The development of strategies by public authorities has become widespread in recent years. The strategizing technology penetrated in administrative management together with the concept of New State Management, designed to improve the efficiency of public administration. The technology of strategizing transferred from business to administrative management included the establishment of long-term goals for various territorial levels and a resource-balanced activity to achieve them. Until 2014, the participation of authorities in the development of strategies had not been necessary. However since 1995, at least 70% of Russian cities and 60% of the subjects of the federation are beginning to actively participate in the development of strategic plans.
In 2014, the Federal Law 172 “On Strategic Planning in the Russian Federation” was adopted, under which strategic documents become an integral part of administrative management,that assumes control by the state. The law provides for the creation of the Register of Strategic Planning Documents, designed to consolidate the goals set out in various planning documents, to develop promising measures to improve the quality of life in the territory based on the dot distribution of investment funds.
Territorial development strategies allow an appropriate territorial level viewing their place in the territorial division of labor, identify vulnerable points of their position, outline promising directions for development, and optimize budget financing schemes for priority projects.
Strategizing includes the development of programs that are internal mechanisms in the implementation of the strategy. Within the strategies, the programs are coordinated with each other and embedded in the logic of achieving the goals. The strategic goal is determined by the results of economic analysis and forecast and is focused on achieving a favorable result.
However, the question is: will allow the technology of strategizing to improve the administrative management system? What really can technology of strategizing give to the territories and what limits today the prospects for using this technology in the practice of public administration?
The empirical basis of the research is the strategies and concepts of socio-economic development of a number of regions and cities of the Siberian Federal District (Omsk and Novosibirsk regions, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Tomsk regions, Omsk and others). Having different planning horizons and executed on the basis of various methodological guidelines, they reveal similar features that make it possible to identify sustainable elements of strategy technology.
In the framework of strategic planning, the subject of planning should be able to direct the processes of socio-economic development of the territory in a given direction. This can be done through flexible budget and tax policies.