All the policies are in place: now it's time for delivery It is Silva who has been designing an iPad app for Cameron that will give him a "management dashboard" on his touch-screen with which to govern the country. Well, a prime minister cannot live by Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja alone. The app - developed at a cost of £20,000 - will be up and running by the end of next month. Assuming the underlying algorithms and code work, the PM will then be able to see real-time data on government performance, polling, the markets, inflation statistics, what's trending on Twitter, search patterns on Google - anything, in other words. If Harold Macmillan governed the country from an armchair, in between reading paragraphs of Trollope, his fellow Tory centrist Cameron may soon be running the show using "Dave's Dashboard." But don't for a minute dismiss this as a gimmick or a lame attempt to curry favour with the digital generation. The app is only the first manifestation of a No 10 plan to judge the success or failure of ministers with reference to performance-related data rather than the usual subjective criteria. The explicit model is the "sabermetric" system of analysis, made famous by the book and movie, Moneyball, in which baseball players were selected by the Oakland A's with reference to hard empirical data rather than the scouts" visceral judgment. Imagine the PM pulling out a ream of bar-charts and computer printouts at a not-too-distant reshuffle, hiring and firing on the basis of stats and figures, rather than headlines and alliances. Ministers, you have been warned. Lurking beneath this futuristic scheme is a sound political reality: we are now reaching the point in this Parliament when the Coalition should be focusing with ferocious zeal upon implementation, almost to the exclusion of everything else. The passage into law last week of Iain Duncan Smith's welfare reforms and the glimpse of the finishing tape for the Health and Social Care Bill combine to form a bold punctuation mark. On deficit reduction, schools, higher education, the NHS, transport, planning, and the reform of government itself, there is enough to keep the Government busy for five years or more. What matters now is that the PM shows that his contempt in Opposition for New Labour "initiativitis" was real, and concentrates on delivery. Cameron certainly knows this. Since the beginning of the year, his mantra has been: "We wanted it. Is it happening? He and Nick Clegg recently sent a letter round to their colleagues, warning them that the pace of implementation was still unsatisfactory, and that each Cabinet member would be meeting Francis Maude, the Minister for the Cabinet Office, and one of the unsung heroes of the Coalition, for face-to-face discussion about what they can do, practically and measurably, to speed up delivery. Also at the Cabinet Office, a new Implementation Unit, headed by Will Cavendish, and overseen by Sir Jeremy Heywood, the Cabinet Secretary, will give an institutional face to the PM's new priority. The political imperative is quite clear: by the 2015 election, there must be appreciable, granular evidence, felt by every voter, that the state of the nation is improving, that the trajectory is the right one, and that Cameron both needs and deserves another five years. Much of the pain has yet to be felt: the welfare reforms that bite in April and the spending cuts, whose impact is still to come, will be hugely controversial. So the pain must be seen to be worth it. More yet: the next spending review, in the words of one senior source, "is going to make the last one look like a picnic in St James's Park." And the best way to make ready for that is to implement the measures already announced, and to seek energetically what Cameron's aides call the "social response" to the many proposals that will require participation and cultural change on the ground. In truth, the next Queen's Speech, due on May 9, should read as follows: "My Lords and Members of the House of Commons. My Government will introduce no major legislation until it has fully implemented the measures already taken since 2010. I pray that the blessing of Almighty God may rest upon your counsels. Now that really would be radical. What better leaving present for Steve?