VITARA - Strategic Management

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Module title: VITARA - Strategic Management (VITARA-SMG)
Topic : Fiscal Issues
Purpose: Provides fundamental knowledge on the concepts related to strategic management of a tax administration.
Focus areas:
- Different plans tax administrations create in relation to their strategy and its implementation.
- Content, timeline, resources, and tasks needed to develop a plan.
- Different planning phases for strategic management.
- Common challenges and risks leaders of tax administrations face.
- Common mistakes made in strategic management of tax administrations.
- International good practice to follow in strategic management of a tax administration.

Target Audience:
- Executives and senior managers in tax administrations.
- Ministries dealing with strategic planning and management of a tax administration.
Qualifications:
- No educational prerequisites.
- Appropriate for tax administration staff with a foundational knowledge of tax administration practices.
- Primary audience includes senior and executive officials responsible for strategic management.
- Also supports staff with no previous experience in formulation and implementation of strategic plans in a tax administration.

By the end of this module, participants should be able to:

Define the concept of strategic management and its benefits for tax administrations.
Describe the content of a strategic plan for a tax administration.
Define the timeline, resources, and tasks needed to develop and implement a strategic plan.
Identify the organization, people, activities, and processes needed to perform the strategic management function successfully within a tax administration.