Ministerial Advisory Boards
Government that listens to the people who do the work
SUM will attach an advisory board of experienced professionals to each ministry, so policy is shaped with the private sector and the real world instead of in isolation.
The problem
Policy made in isolation from the people who live with it produces rules that look fine on paper and fail in practice. Expertise sits outside government and is rarely asked. A government that listens makes fewer expensive mistakes.
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What SUM will do
Expert boards per ministry
Each ministry advised by experienced professionals from its industry, so decisions are grounded in practical reality.
Real private-sector engagement
Open communication and cooperation with the private sector to drive policies that foster growth and innovation.
Inclusive, better policy
Business leaders, economists and industry experts at the table, so policy is aligned with real challenges and opportunities.
How it works, step by step
Attach an expert board to each ministry
Every ministry is advised by experienced professionals from its own industry, so decisions are grounded in how things actually work rather than how they look on paper.
Open real channels to the private sector
Steady communication and cooperation with the private sector shape policies that support growth instead of surprising the people who have to live with them.
Widen who is in the room
Business leaders, economists and industry experts sit at the table, so policy is aligned with the real challenges and opportunities of the sector it governs.
In real life
Fewer costly mistakes, policy that works in practice as well as principle, and a government that treats the knowledge of its people as an asset rather than a threat.
The board for the relevant ministry means the people who run these businesses are consulted before a rule is written, so fewer rules land that look fine but fail in practice.
Fewer expensive policy errors means less public money wasted undoing decisions that expertise would have caught early.
Advisory boards cost very little. Their members advise, and the saving comes from the expensive mistakes they help government avoid. Getting a policy right the first time is far cheaper than building it, watching it fail, and rebuilding it.
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Does this hand policy to business interests?
No. The boards advise. Elected government decides. The point is to inform decisions with expertise, not to outsource them.
Why not just hire more civil servants?
Because much of the relevant expertise lives in the private sector and the professions. Advisory boards bring it to the table without bloating the state.
Does this hand policy to business interests?
No. The boards advise. Elected government decides. The point is to inform decisions with real expertise, not to outsource them to anyone.
Why not just hire more civil servants?
Because much of the relevant knowledge lives in the private sector and the professions. Advisory boards bring it to the table without swelling the size of the state.
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