Deploy a strategy or policy in a food and drink business

This standard is about the skills and knowledge needed for you to deploy a strategy or policy in a food and drink business. Deploying a strategy or policy in a food and drink 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 and drink business, consumer choices and its overall effect on the success of the business. This standard is for you if you work in food and drink operations and/or supply operations and are involved in deploying organisational strategy and policy in a food and drink business.

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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 and drink 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 and drink business

18. obtain and give feedback on the deployment process and its

    impact on the food and drink business

19. review the value of your contribution to the deployment of the

    strategy or policy

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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 and drink 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 and drink business

   5. the people across the food and drink 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 and drink 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 and drink

   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

   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 and drink industry

   17. how social and ethical responsibility influences decision making

   and operations across a food and drink business

   18. how environment, people, animals, politics and sustainability

   issues affect consumer food and drink purchasing choices

   19. how the way a food and drink business operates or is perceived to

   operate can affect consumer choices and therefore affect the

   commercial success of the food and drink business

   20. the key differences between a food and drink 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 and drink business

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Original

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impbp108s, impbp109k, impbp110k

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Administration, Associate Professionals and Technical oc, Business Management

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1139

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Food; Drink; Manufacturing; Business; Manage; Implement; Strategy; Environment

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