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Practice Areas: Strategic Planning (Return to Practice Areas)How can an organization move from the current state to their future vision? Strategic Planning creates an explicit path between the two through a process of long-term assessment of internal and external environments, establishing goals and objectives, developing action plans to meet those goals and objectives, and identifying and tracking performance measures. Strategic planning answers four key questions:
This process shapes and guides what an organization is, what it does, and why it does it. The process of strategic planning is participatory — facilitating communication within an organization and with its external environment, strengthening partnerships, improving customer service, and improving decision-making and successful implementation. Strategic planning is a vehicle to successfully introduce quality management concepts to an agency or department. It guides the budget process, providing management an opportunity to evaluate the existing allocation of funds. The process of planning is often more valuable than the plan itself. The strategic planning process is flexible and continuous — strategic plans are not static, but may be adapted over time to reflect the changing internal and external environments. NewPoint Group has guided public sector clients through the entire strategic planning process. Starting with the internal and external assessment, through the development of performance measures and monitoring, tracking, and reevaluating the plans. |