Commentary: Is Flexibility in Strategy the Key to Performance?

• Date: 01 September 2013
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/puar.12102
• Author: Kim Salkeld
• Published date: 01 September 2013

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Kim Salkeld

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, China

Is Flexibility in Strategy the Key to Performance? Commentary

Kim Salkeld works in the Eff‌i ciency Unit

of the Hong Kong Special Administrative

Region Government, which is responsible

for business process improvement studies

within individual public service agencies

and across the public service as a whole.

E-mail: kas@eu.gov.hk

The conventions of academic writing often

construct a barrier across the path of practi-

tioners of the art of providing public services.

Faced with the daily press of business, is it worthwhile

to cut through the thickets of citations and master the

import of methodologies in the hope that useful ideas

and insights will be found?

In the present case, the question as to whether

a particular framework for analyzing strategic