We recommend weaving each of the
following components into your planning
process:
CONTENT ANALYSIS
of all
related plans and critical documents
- building on the best thinking and
momentum to date
KEY INFORMANT INTERVIEWS
-
an opportunity for critical
stakeholders to bring insight,
objectivity and fresh thinking to
bear on the process - to
discretely identify the REAL ISSUES
that might be missed in a diplomatic
workshop environment
ENVIRONMENTAL SCAN
-
an objective and creative search for
issues, trends, forces and policy
shifts that could dramatically
affect the organization and/or its
services (SWOT)
CURRENT SERVICE REVIEW
-
analysis of the way you currently
do business with an initial
exploration of issues and
alternatives (rationale, key
services, resources allocated, cost
drivers, performance measures,
alternative delivery mechanisms, key
issues
The
ADVANCE (We
don't do retreats!) - a
reflective and creative opportunity
to develop a strong sense of
organizational focus (vision,
mission, key outcomes, brand
pyramid, core business definition),
refine operating philosophy and
values, and establish strategic
priorities
STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT
-
informed teams
refine visionary outcomes for each
priority, develop powerful
strategies and interventions, and
define the indicators that will be
used to monitor progress (logic
model for each strategic priority)
FINANCIAL PLANNING/MODELING
-
the 'reality therapy' stage of
identifying related costs and
funding sources and projecting
budgets over the life of the plan.
Our planning processes
challenge organization's and their
leaders to look for and move
aggressively towards a better way of
doing business. We
encourage transformational
leadership - the skills, tools and
support to define a preferred future
and make it become reality.
