Kia ora koutou,
In 2021, we engaged with you about the Operating Model at a strategic level. We have used your feedback to inform this next design and delivery phase of the Operating Model.
This year, the Operating Model is focussed on delivering an organisational structure that will support Te Pūkenga to set-up, operate and deliver on our vision.
This mahi is progressing at pace and you can expect to see more information and announcements about the different workstreams throughout the year. This special edition of Ngā Taipitopito offers a comprehensive update of the 2022 Operating Model mahi to date.
Transformation of this scale brings challenge and opportunities for kaimahi, ākonga employers and industry. There are many decisions to be made and guiding these decisions is the clear vision of success across three key time horizons – Horizon 1 in 2023, Horizon 2 in 2026, and Horizon 3 from 2027 to 2033. This is outlined in the document ‘What you can expect’.
Te-Pukenga-What-you-can-expect.pdf
Underpinning how we work towards these Horizons are the core principles of giving effect to Te Tiriti, putting ākonga (and their whānau) at the centre, embedding equity, and meeting the needs of employers and industry. These principles govern all Te Pūkenga mahi, including the Operating Model.
Ngā mihi,
Stephen Town
Chief Executive
Operating Model updates
Operating Model Workstreams
In December 2021, Te Pūkenga Council decided to adapt how we deliver the Operating Model and split the work into four separate workstreams. This decision means that each of the workstreams can move at the required speed while staying connected.
- Accelerating Enabling Functions: The Accelerating Enabling Function workstream has been asked to develop and engage on the functional model for the Finance, Information Technology and People and Culture teams and explore the models and ability to accelerate the Marketing, Communications and Legal and Risk teams being welcomed into Te Pūkenga.
- Delivery: The Delivery workstream is working to develop a functional model for our new organisation. This mahi includes all the functions that are not part of the Accelerating Enabling Functions workstream. This design work will bring together Ako Networks (teaching, learner wellbeing, and employer functions), and regions into one transformative structure that will build on the strengths of both Transitional Industry Training Organisations and Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics. This model will set us up to successfully meet our second and third Horizons. Te-Pukenga-What-you-can-expect.pdf
- Early Mover ITPs: Some ITP subsidiaries have told us they would like to join Te Pūkenga early (before the legal dissolution date of 31 December 2022). These ITP subsidiaries will lead the way for future transitions. This mahi is called Early Mover ITPs.
We expect to make an announcement in this workstream very soon. - WBL Transition: Continuing the work started in 2021, this workstream manages the transition of Transitional Industry Training Organisations into WBL and Te Pūkenga. The latest decisions on the transition of Transitional Industry Training Organisations is as follows:
- ServiceIQ will transition to Te Pūkenga, 1 July 2022.
- Careerforce are planning to transition, 1 September 2022.
- Skills Org arranging training activity in specific sectors and programmes will transfer to WBL, 1 October 2022.
- PrimaryITO will transition, 5 October 2022.
2022 Operating Model Timing
Consultation on the Operating Model depends on the progress through the detailed design process. We will come and talk to you as soon as we can, but we want to get this in the right shape first.
We are working towards a mid-year Consultation which will include proposals for our organisational structure, including Ako networks and regions. We are committed to ensuring that all kaimahi know where they will belong in our new organisation in November.
Early Mover ITPs
We are talking to some ITPs about their plans to join Te Pūkenga early (before the legal dissolution date of 31 December 2022). We expect to make an announcement in this workstream shortly.
Work Based Learning
Over the coming months, WBL is working on Transitional Industry Training Organisations transition planning, integration trials, digital development, functional integration and change management. WBL will welcome Service IQ into WBL in July, Careerforce in September, and in October PrimaryITO and elements of Skills.
Operating Model Governance and Advisory
Having the right direction and decision-making for the Operating Model is really important.
The Operating Model Programme works within the governance structure of the wider Te Pūkenga Transformation Programme. Te Pūkenga Programme Board and Te Pūkenga Council (and Transformation sub-group of Council) are responsible and are supported with advice from the Operating Model team, ELT members, and advisory groups including Subsidiary Chief Executives, Komiti Māori, Interim Staff Advisory Committee, Interim Learner Advisory Committee, Te Poari Ākoranga, Network Change Leads, and Te Tira Manukura.
The Operating Model programme has also established two Working Groups to ensure the design meets the needs and expectations of Te Pūkenga partners and stakeholders.
Operating Model Working Group
We have formed an Operating Model Working Group to provide network voice and leadership of the change. They also help identify risks and issues, advise on the workability of the proposed Operating Model and provide a ‘sense check’ against Te Pūkenga Charter. This working group’s membership includes six Chief Executives from Te Pūkenga subsidiaries and Transitional Industry Training Organisations and two Directors from WBL Business Divisions, as well as representatives from each Te Pūkenga directorate.
Te Tiriti Working Group
A bold new Tiriti o Waitangi Design Working Group has been established to support the Operating Model development.
This Working Group is focussed on the practical application of Te Tiriti o Waitangi in the functional design of the Operating Model. The Group will be guided by Tiriti Design Criteria that will be endorsed by our Tiriti Partners and will test Operating Model outputs against High Tiriti-Relevant functions.
2022 Operating Model Conversations
Informed by the 2021 engagement, the Operating Model team and Te Pūkenga leaders are having targeted conversations with people across the organisation and subsidiaries to make sure we have the right information to inform Operating Model design.
These conversations will be targeted because we are moving past guiding principles to the detailed design and implementation of our organisation. This is a change to the way things worked last year when there was engagement on high-level concepts. Stephen Town mentioned this in the 24 February edition of Ngā Taipitopito:
“Moving to a more practical phase means that we will be having conversations with smaller groups of people across the organisation and subsidiaries to inform the practical design and delivery of each workstream. These conversations will be more targeted than last year’s engagement.”
Strong Network
Our Charter commits us to big and achievable aspirations.
It requires that we become an excellent vocational education organisation, that is regionally responsive, empowers ākonga and kaimahi, partners with employers, reflects Māori-Crown partnerships and holds inclusivity and equity as core principles.
To do this we need the strength, talent, and commitment of network kaimahi.
Our Values
We will use Te Pūkenga values to guide the way we build Te Pūkenga, this includes how the Operating Model mahi is managed along with how we welcome kaimahi, ākonga, and employers into Te Pūkenga whānau.
Next Steps
The information shared by Te Pūkenga supplements the connections you have to your Chief Executives, Network Change Leads, and Network Communications Leads.
You’ll see fortnightly updates in Ngā Taipitopito, so please keep yourself updated by reading these. Your senior leaders will also help you to understand our key steps together, particularly the steps most relevant to you which include the consultation and recruitment and selection phases.
Together we will keep you informed of the mahi underway to successfully reach Horizon 1, 1 January 2023.