In November 2006 Cabinet mandated the transformation process for SAMDI to be reconstituted as a public sector Academy with the capacity to provide massified training at all spheres of government. The new vision for the Academy is to:
1. Shift from being a provider of training to a facilitator of training.
2. Move from being a competitor in the provision of training to collaboration with other service providers.
3. Extend its coverage from selective to comprehensive or massified.

The Academy has identified the following strategic objectives through which it will achieve its mandate:
1.Develop and administer a training framework of curricula and materials oriented to service delivery to be used by providers of transversal skills training for junior and middle managers.
2. Co-ordinate the provision of executive development programmes for the senior management service.
3. Capacitate public sector departments to identify and meet their management development and training needs in relation to their service delivery objectives.
4. Develop and implement a suitable quality management and monitoring system.
5. Establish and maintain partnerships and linkages with national and international management development institutes and training providers.
6. Arrange customised training programmes in support of South African foreign policy within the African Union and the New Partnership for Africa’s Development programme.