Imrecon

Consultation with affected parties is an integral and necessary part of any material policy making.  However, the issues in economic regulation can become quite arcane which means economic regulators can face significant communication challenges.  

A policy team that has spent months or years thinking about a problem, often developing new concepts and becoming familiar with their own shorthand ways of communicating with each other, needs to find the language to meaningfully inform others.  Without it, however good the policy team's thinking is, policy is inadequately informed, it is inadequately communicated to those whose behaviour it is intended to influence and the credibility of it being maintained for the longer term continuity is undermined.

How Imrecon helps

Much of Imrecon's work informs consultation, including preparing analysis, drafting parts of consultation papers, presenting at workshops, seminars and press conferences or preparing reports for publication. 

Imrecon's analysis throughout the policy formation process is driven by an interest in understanding the dyanmics of policy.  Imrecon's exploration of the relationships and of different perspectives helps identify useful ways to present and characterise the issues for consultation.  Imrecon actively seeks the 'killer presentation', a way of presenting the issue that captures its essence and appeals to the intuition of the audience.