This guide sets out the requirements on departmental chief executives to develop a Long-term Insights Briefings and recommendations for how these briefings should best be developed.

It includes guiding principles to support departments in making decisions that fully realise the potential benefits of the briefings. It also includes criteria to assist departments in selecting the subject matter for a briefing.

This guide has been developed for:

• chief executives and other public service leaders responsible for delivering a briefing
• managers and teams developing a briefing
• agencies in the broader state services contributing to a briefing
• other people wanting an overview of the briefings and development process.