1. Ola Awad

2. Relevancy Institutionalize Visibility Partnership
When it comes to the IAOS, what is positioned in our minds is its people /members, IAOS biannual conference and the SJIAOS. And sometime – unintentionally - we forget that IAOS is just a voluntary organization…and we – intentionally – demand more because everyone wants a distinguished IAOS.
All of that reflect the spirit of IAOS that we all cherish
Partnership

3. To talk about the future of IAOS, one must stop and examine its status quo. And as statistician, we often feel more comfortable with numbers …………

4. IAOS Membership Individuals
During the period , there had been decrease in the number of individual members
Then, for the last four years the number of individual members has been rising up with big jump in 2014
We all recognize that IAOS conference is a good vehicle to increase memberships

5. IAOS Membership Institutions
As for institutions, little has changed since 2007
Opportunity to partner with key organizations especially in the SJIAOS is an opportunity that we would like to explore more!

6. IAOS Conference Participants
As for IAOS conference, number of participants have been decreasing –
The location of the conference, lack of funding are probable reasons
More efforts are needed to identify main reasons!

7. Young Statisticians Prize Entries/countries
YSP is an innovative project that targets young statisticians
# Entries/# represented countries still fluctuating
But that is really not of great importance – Immediate target was to attract young statisticians and we’ve done that
And the YSP is a good vehicle to attract young statisticians into IAOS! The question is how to retain them!

8. What we are good at, what we are weak at!
We now go to assessing our strengths and weaknesses. This would certainly help us in identifying strategic directions to focus on for the next two years

9. What distinguishes the IAOS from other similar organizations?
What is the role of the IAOS in the context of the global statistical community?
What distinguishes the IAOS from other similar organizations?
What is the agenda of the IAOS for ?
Are IAOS activities relevant and do they meet expectations of stakeholders?
What are the preferences of IAOS members regarding its services and outputs?
But, why do we need a strategy?
The strategy aims to provide answers to simple yet challenging questions related to roles of IAOS in the global statistical community,
What really makes IAOS special or different!
What does IAOS aim to achieve during the next two years?
How do users perceive IAOS? What do members want from IAOS?
All these are very legitimate questions that we should feel very comfortable in answering them!
IAOS

10. What is IAOS?
Before we dig deep into the details of IAOS, we need to capitalize on the structure of IAOS:
As Stephen Penneck nicely phrased it
Well, IAOS is a Voluntary organization
Its members are People scattered around the globe
Its vehicles to achieve its objectives are mainly SJIAOS, Conferences
IAOS is well known within the statistical community? The question is how to maintain that and build on what has been achieved?

11. social media as a communication tool
IAOS Conferences to increase memberships
Decreasing IAOS host prospects
More attractive agenda item like FP 2014, SDGs
International conference timetable very crowded
important forum for non-official discussions
Limited coordination across ISI family conferences
standalone conferences
active player in WSC
good long-established journal
YSP is an innovative way
To start, situational analysis was needed to identify what we are good at,
What are the areas that require more efforts from us to further develop and meet expectations?
What are the challenges ahead that we must anticipate and get prepared for?
And of course how to seize the different chances/developments happening around us to better serve IAOS?
Based on this SWOT analysis,
The strategic directions are being defined to build on current strengths, seek solutions to current weaknesses, identify regional and global opportunities that shall be seized to serve the broad purpose of IAOS, and take into account the global environment that shapes IAOS practices.
limited formal engagement on major Official Statistics policy/direction
Lack of members feedback
limited influence on wider ISI directions
Current website is static
SJIAOS is largely dependent on energetic editor

12. IAOS
What are our priorities! And how to address the future challenges with the help of IAOS members!

13. IAOS Strategy
When we talk about a strategy for any organizations, there are usually keys for the successful implementation of the plan at hand
And when it comes to the IAOS strategy for the years , the challenging part is to clearly identify and define these keys. So we spend a lot of time consulting with spectrum of members to get the right KEYS!

14. The heart of IAOS lies in its volunteering spirit of its members,
Based on that concept, for the strategy to succeed it must focus on people – the members.
IAOS will become stronger through partnership and more engagement of members
This is our master key

15. Fundamental Principles
We promote
Partnership
Respect
Partnership: The IAOS seeks regional and international partnerships to strengthen technical cooperation in the field of official statistics while maintaining user perspective
Respect: The IAOS strongly believes that "great ideas come from anywhere". Accordingly, regional cooperation and exchange of know-how crosses boundaries and has no limitations.
Professional ethics: The IAOS strongly believes in the importance of promoting the statistical ethics issued by ISI
Fundamental principles: The IAOS strongly believes in the importance of adopting the fundamental principles of official statistics
Professional ethics
Fundamental Principles

16. Relevancy Visibility Partnership Institutionalize
Based on that SWOT analysis, we defined our areas of priority – the keys for success - for the coming two years,
That is, we defined our strategic objectives.
The strategy addresses organizational and strategic directions to transform the IAOS to a more relevant entity in the international statistical community
Institutionalize

17. To increase the relevancy of IAOS
Objective One
To increase the relevancy of IAOS
Objective Two
To increase the visibility of IAOS at all levels
Objective Three
To create mutual beneficial Partnerships
The strategy resides on four objectives that focus on people – members
Relevancy to ensure IAOS remains attractive to its members, and to other peer organizations
Visibility in various statistical events to maintain appropriate role in global statistical directions
Partnership with peer organizations to better serve the global statistical community
Institutionalize the work of IAOS so that in the future the focus shall be directed to development issues more than managerial matters
Objective Four
To Institutionalize IAOS functions

18. More engagement of members
First strategic objective: To increase the relevancy of IAOS
More engagement of members
Satisfaction Survey
Members Profile Database
More focus on Communication strategy that targets segmentation of users
Measure members' satisfaction on a regular basis – IAOS conference is a great opportunity to interact with members and receive feedback on core services & development issues
Develop members' profile database – could be part of future IAOS web portal as members driven database

19. Interests of Young Statisticians
First strategic objective: To increase the relevancy of IAOS
emerging "Hot issues“
Interests of Young Statisticians
IAOS Conf. themes
Interest s of international organizations
Align IAOS themes of conferences to the emerging "Hot issues“
Collaborate with international statistical organizations
Make the IAOS attractive to more Young Statisticians by seeking more entries to the YSP and with higher quality papers

20. Second strategic objective: To increase the visibility of the IAOS at regional and international levels
New members
IAOS membership
Diversification 40 60
Institution members
257
700
IAOS2016
Part 1
Current number of members of IAOS is about (400)
Increase membership by 15-25%
Diversify membership by targeting research centers, regional & International organizations, members of national statistical systems
Increase the memberships of NSIs in the IAOS - More focus on institutional members (Current: 40 – Target: 60)
Of course my Group of us wants to double the number – But some may think it is too ambitious!
Part 2
IAOS2016: Target is about 700 participant compared to 257 in IAOS2014 with the opportunity for web broadcasting to selected sessions
Part 3
Current web site static and limited in attractive content.
Transform IAOS web site into a web portal with focus on content, presentation and interactions
Play active role in statistical international events
Content
Presentation
Interaction

21. Stronger relation with ISI's associations
Third strategic objective: To invest in creating mutual beneficial Partnerships
Expand the traditional stakeholders of IAOS to include universities, regional and international organizations, research centers, and other governmental institutions
Stronger relation with ISI's associations
Increase memberships of NSIs in the IAOS
Make SJIAOS as a brand product through partnership with reputable NSIs

22. Fourth strategic objective: Institutionalize IAOS functions
Written and well documented protocols related to IAOS's committees, functions of the IAOS president, functions of the IAOS president-elect, nomination of IAOS host countries, YSP competition, budgetary, reporting, …etc
Committees
IAOS President
President Elect
budgetary
Function of Program Committee
YSP competition
Function of Program Committee
Host of IAOS Conf.

24. Conferences and workshops
IAOS Abu Dhabi
Governance workshop for Arab NSIs
IAOS sponsored Sessions - ISI WSC 2017
Identify IAOS 2018 host country

25. Advocacy targeting young statisticians
YSP 2016, YSP 2017
IAOS Host countries own advocacy
Developing and supporting membership
Communication plan to increase individual members
Partnership planning to increase institution members
Member satisfaction survey
Part one
As for Advocacy targeting young statisticians
YSP rounds for 2016 and 2017 will be conducted with focus to attract more entries with higher quality papers
We also would like to encourage host countries to initiate their own contest that focus on young statisticians. We will see how things go in IAOS2916
Part two
Our communication strategy shall target individuals as well as institutions to engage in IAOS
IAOS Advocacy targeting a wide range of members (NSIs, Universities, research centers,…etc).
Attracting institutions require developing mutual beneficial relationship – and may be SJIAOS is an attractive component in this relationship
What do members think about the services of IAOS? What are the preferences of members? All that will come from a member satisfaction survey
Part three
As for the web site, the future web site will be the heart of IAOS communication strategy. More focus on content, or storing and retrieving relevant information in user friendly manner, and to support interaction and networking among IAOS family
Overhaul of IAOS' web site
Content management
Database driven
Interaction with members/users

26. IAOS president & President elect 2015 New Executive committee 2015
Succession Planning
IAOS president & President elect 2015
New Executive committee 2015
IAOS president & President elect 2017
Develop IAOS Standard Procedural Manuals
Part One
In the midst of all of these details, we are full aware of the importance of attracting potential IAOS presidents and president elect and the executive committee
Part Two
Two key procedural manuals are of importance in the process of institutionalizing IAOS, YSP and IAOS conference. I think we have accumulated good experience in these two areas and that would be beneficial to put these experiences in procedural manuals.
Develop YSP Procedural Manual
Develop IAOS conference Procedural Manual

27. There always will be a next scene to watch in the IAOS

29. Relevancy
Institutionalize
Visibility
Partnership