Strategic Management Seminar for Candidate and Western Balkan Countries
22-23November 2007
Atrium Hotel, Split, Croatia
Strategic Management Seminar for Candidate and Western Balkan Countries
22-23November 2007
Atrium Hotel, Split, Croatia
Agenda
Quality, efficiency and productivity:
a challenge for official statistics
Wednesday, 21 November 200719:00 / Welcome Cocktail offered by EFTA
Atrium Hotel
Thursday, 22 November 2007
09:00 / Opening Session:
Darko Jukic, Central Bureau of Statistics of Croatia
Gabriel Gamez, EFTA
Arunas Butkevicius, Eurostat
09:30 / Session I: Organising and managing a statistical system in a small country
Hallgrimur Snorrason, Statistics Iceland
Heinrich Brüngger, UNECE
Session 1a: Issues of legislation, management and priority setting
Hallgrímur Snorrason: Introduction (10 min.)
Heinrich Brüngger: Legislative framework – confidentiality (20 min. talk + 20 min. discussion):
10:30 - Coffee break
Hallgrímur Snorrason: Organisational structure, management issues, priority setting (20 min. talk + 20 min. discussion)
Discussion in two groups, one on legislative issues and confidentiality, the other on priority setting (30 min. discussion + 30 min. reporting)
Total time planned: 150 min. (leaving 30 min. for breaks etc.)
12:30-14:00 / Lunch break
14:00 / Session Ib: Issues of management and regional cooperation
Hallgrímur Snorrason: Issues of data collection, IT- management and dissemination (30 min. talk + 20 min. discussion)
Heinrich Brüngger: Regional cooperation – in the context of development and human resource policies (20 min. talk + 20 min. discussion)
16:00 - Coffee break
Discussion in two groups, one on IT-management and dissemination, the other on regional cooperation (30 min. discussion + 30 min. reporting)
Total time planned: 150 min. (leaving 30 min. for breaks etc.)
17:00 / End of first day
20:15 / Departure from hotel for dinner.
Friday, 23 November 2007
09:00 / Session II: Quality Management: CoP vs QMS
Marie Bohata, Eurostat
Maria Dologová, Statistical Office of the SlovakRepublic
10:00 Coffee break
12:00-13:30 / Lunch break
13:30 / Session III: (Re)-Organising the production of national statistics: a challenge for pre-accession countries
Delcheslava Delcheva, Roumiana Petrova, National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria
Beatrix Gered, Tatiana Barsanescu, National Statistical Institute of Romania
15:30 Coffee break
16:30 / Session IV: Presentation of the statistical system of Croatia
17:00 / Closing of the seminar
17:30 / End
19:15 / Departure from hotel for dinner, offered by Central Bureau of Statistics Croatia
Saturday, 24 November 2007 - EXCURSION
08:30 / Departure from hotel
Guided tour of
1.the Emperor Diocletian's place (the very heart of Split)
2.The Museum of Croatian Archeological Monuments
3. Ivan Mestrovic gallery (famous Croatian sculptor)
14:30 / Lunch
+/-17:00 / Return to the hotel
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