Meta-Frame: Managing Complex Programs

Meta-Frame is a suite of instruments developed to manage complex projects and programs and implement policy. Implementation and the achievement of results is central to Meta-Frame. The background is:

• There is large need to achieve cost effectiveness and value-for-money in implementing complex programs and policies
• Achieving results does not happen by chance
• Program design, implementation arrangement and conducive environments are essential – yet the mechanisms of effective programs are not always thought through;
• It is as important to manage certainty as it is to manage uncertainty

Meta-Frame consists of three nested circles – program design and review; implementation arrangements; and culture and governance. The show, the artists and audience and the marquee matter equally – as in a circus.