The Cultural Village Foundation “Katara” is holding the Fifth Strategic Leaderships Forum - Qatar Strategy Execution Community — on Tuesday, April 21. This comes in response to the success of the previous forums in terms of representation from both private and government sectors in Qatar and abroad.
In this occasion Dr Khaled bin Ibrahim Al Sulaiti, General Manager of Katara, advised that convening the Fifth Forum is an indication to the success of this significant forum. It turned into an umbrella under which senior officials, executives, and workers in the strategies field meet. They attend to participate, learn, discuss, and adopt the best practices in the field of strategic planning pertinent to their industries.
In the same vein, Dr Al Sulaiti stated continuum of this forum in a periodical manner is to replicate different experiences, learn, and support state institutions and entities working in the field of strategic leaderships. This goes hand in hand with Katara’s vision and the strategy launched last year and in response to the national strategic objectives pertinent to the cultural sector. He also noted that the forum is an important opportunity to bring together senior officials, executives, and workers specialised in the strategies sector in Qatar.
He further noted to the significance of the cooperation with Palladium International Group in implementing the strategy, which is a participant in the Strategic Leaderships Forum. He pointed to the role of forums and pre-planning in positively impacting the course of work of Katara. It has witnessed a significant leap in its performance, mission, and programmes. It also draws a critical stage through implementing a strategy that accords with Qatar National Vision 2030.
Dr Khaled Al Jaber, Strategic Affairs Consultant of Katara, expressed that the foundation appreciates the ongoing communication, contribution, holding workshops that deal with drafting and implementing strategic plans on the local, regional, and global levels. He also stressed on the importance of holding the Fifth Strategic Leaderships Forum at Katara.
Furthermore, he noted that the forum realised its objectives since its launch in 2013, when it turned into a minaret that brought together experts, specialists, researchers, interested people, and workers in the field of strategies in different sectors in order to exchange expertise, and long term plans that are set to reach to the best practices and replicas of successful models within the best international standards.
Al Jaber also stated that the forum will discuss in its sessions and workshops on April 21 the best criteria in linking strategies with the national budget of an institution to reach to the best practices.
Dr Al Jaber confirmed the participation of Dr James Creelman, the head of research at Palladiuumbm International Group and a professional trainer in the implementation of strategies. He is also specialised in administrative risk management and the balance scorecards for regulating the financial services. He is an expert in the global economy and has published around 23 books in in the financial strategic planning. Other participants in the forum are a group of senior officials, executive managers, and workers in different sectors of economy in Qatar to discuss all issues and developments in this vital sector.
The forum has gained much publicity locally, regionally, and globally, Dr Al Jaber advised. “It is organised in conjunction with the Palladium International Group and under the supervision of David Norton and a group of international experts in the field of strategies and executive leadership. It is one of the leading companies worldwide in the field of providing assistance to institutions in creating and implementing their strategies,” he said.
Dr David Norton, the international expert in the strategic performance management, pointed to the fact that the development Qatar is witnessing in all levels which has helped in making these forums continue to succeed. They help an institution to draw a road map to the future of the institution through creating the vision and mission statements, implementing programmes, doing the actions, resolving problems, and coming up with appropriate solutions according to the international standards. This requires the need to come up with a strategy that focuses on qualifying leaders, and creating a well-laid administrative plan that can lead to realize the desired objectives.
Dr Norton is the head of Palladium International Group. It is an organisation that facilitates the efficient use of balanced scorecards for performance worldwide as a managing process that incurs an added value.
Dr Norton had delivered several lectures and authored many books and articles. His work in the field of balanced scorecards was the topic of many articles and government conferences.
The latest Forum for Strategic Leaderships was held in April 2014 at Katara.The Peninsula
