Wednesday, September 30, 2009

LGU officials attend Public Governance Forum

Local government officials, public administrators, and other public servants gathered at the Public Governance Forum keynoted by Dr. David Norton, a renowned Management and Strategy Thought-leader and co-author of the book, Balanced Scorecard held last September 23-24, 2009 in Mandarin Oriental Manila.

The forum, with the theme: A Force for Positive Change: Achieve Breakthroughs with the Performance Governance System was convened by the Institute for Solidarity in Asia and Performance Governance System.

The two-day forum tackled breakthroughs in public service in the cities of Balanga, Bataan; San Fernando, Pampanga; and Iloilo City. Other speakers included Mr. Jesus Estanislao of Institute for Solidarity in Asia (ISA), Mr. Ryan Patrick G. Evangelista of Universal Access to Competitiveness and Trade (U-ACT), and Ms. Emilia Boncodin of the National College of Public Administration and Governance University of the Philippines. The topics showed participants how to drive results through transparency and performance management, align public sector strategy organization to strategy, involve stakeholders in successful strategy execution, strengthen performance reporting capabilities, and generate resources to fund strategic initiatives.

Conveners were the National Competitiveness Council, Development Bank of the Philippines, and CGG Comfac Global Group. Co-conveners were the Lungsod of Balanga, Bayan ng Bani, City of Iloilo, City of San Fernando, Professional Regulation Commission, and the Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Institutional partners were CIPE, Royal Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Palladium Executing Strategy, Natrapharm, U-ACT, League of Cities of the Philippines, Ortigas Foundation, Inc., and TeamAsia. Silver sponsors were Bank of Commerce, Flexo Manufacturing, Planters Bank, Smart. Media partner was BusinessMirror.

For more information, contact TeamAsia at (632) 757-3500, fax (632) 757-3510 to 11, email info@teamasia.com or visit http://www.teamasia.com/

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