IMPBP108 – Deploy a strategy or policy in a food business

 

Overview

 

This standard is about the skills and knowledge needed for you to deploy a strategy or policy in a food business.

 

Deploying a strategy or policy in a food business is important in ensuring key decisions around the direction of the business, its objectives and responsibilities are followed through to practical outcomes and guidelines.

 

You will need the skills and knowledge to prepare to deploy a strategy or policy, communicate and ensure the strategy or policy is implemented to organisational requirements and standards. You will also need the skills and knowledge to obtain and deliver feedback on the implementation process.

 

You will need to know and understand the origins of ethical and social responsibility, how it affects the operation of a food business, consumer choices and its overall effect on the success of the business.

 

This standard is for you if you work in food operations and/or supply operations and are involved in deploying organisational strategy and policy in a food business.

 

Performance criteria

You must be able to:

 

Prepare for direct strategy or policy implementation

1.            confirm the key objectives of the strategy or policy

2.            draft the plans for strategy or policy implementation

3.            discuss the impact of the implementation plans on productivity, quality, compliance or other areas of the food business

4.            agree the plans with relevant colleagues and any key stakeholders

5.            determine the resources and timescales available to ensure implementation of the strategy or policy

6.            confirm the availability of resources for implementation

 

Implement and manage strategy or policy

7.            brief relevant colleagues on your plans and their roles and responsibilities for implementation

8.            provide on-going support, encouragement and information to manage implementation

9.            confirm processes and resources are available to address potential problems arising from implementation of a strategy or policy

10.          implement the strategy or policy, selecting and applying a range of management tools and techniques

11.          monitor, control and review progress of the implementation

12.          communicate progress to relevant colleagues at regular intervals

13.          identify any required changes to the strategy or policy

14.          inform the relevant colleagues of any changes and adjust resource requirements as necessary

 

Monitor the strategy or policy deployment

15.          evaluate the success of the deployment of a strategy or policy in a food business

16.          assess the impact of the strategy or policy on colleagues

17.          assess the impact of the strategy or policy on organisational productivity, quality, compliance and other requirements of the food business

18.          obtain and give feedback on the deployment process and its impact on the food business

19.          review the value of your contribution to the deployment of the strategy or policy

 

Knowledge and understanding

You need to know and understand

 

Deploy a strategy or policy

1.            how to access and review the strategy or policy requiring deployment

2.            why it is important to determine the resources required to deploy a strategy or policy across a food business and how to do this

3.            the importance of ensuring processes and resources are available to address potential problems and how to address such problems

4.            the communication methods available to aid deployment of a strategy or policy across a food business

5.            the people across the food business with whom you need to communicate the strategy or policy

6.            the organisational management tools and techniques available to implement the strategy or policy

7.            how to determine the processes and systems by which the strategy or policy can be implemented

8.            how to develop plans and timescales for the deployment process in a food business

9.            why it is important to keep relevant people up to date on the progress of the implementation and how to do this

10.          why it is important to provide feedback to relevant people on the content of the strategy or policy

11.          the actions required if changes are needed to the food business strategy or policy

12.          why it is important to evaluate the success of the deployment process including its impact on colleagues, organisational productivity, quality and compliance requirements

13.          how to provide and receive feedback on the deployment process including your contribution to the process

 

Organisational, ethical and social responsibility

14.          the definition of social and ethical responsibility and the differing ways this term can be interpreted across different sectors and areas of the food industry

15.          the origins of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and how it has impacted on the local, UK and international food industry

16.          the key areas of social and ethical responsibility that influence the food industry

17.          how social and ethical responsibility influences decision making and operations across a food business

18.          how environment, people, animals, politics and sustainability issues affect consumer food purchasing choices

19.          how the way a food business operates or is perceived to operate can affect consumer choices and therefore affect the commercial success of the food business

20.          the key differences between a food commodity market and a service based market, the factors affecting each of these markets and how they influence social and ethical responsibility decision making in the operation of a food business

 

Keywords: Food; drink; manufacturing; business; manage; implement; strategy; environment