Implementation is harder than policy

Dr Martin Parkinson, Secretary to the Treasury (2011-2014) stresses that implementation is not the poor cousin of policy development. 

Dr Martin Parkinson, Secretary to the Treasury (2011-2014) stresses that implementation is not the poor cousin of policy development.  In Implementation is harder than policy, don’t undervalue it  he speaks of the need to hold for policy makers to engage with the implementers, including the community sector to avoid the "set and forget" approach, instead creating a continuous and adaptive feedback loop between policy design and implementation.