STRATEGIC PLANNING : A TEN-STEP GUIDE

differences

LONG-RANGE & STRATEGIC PLANNING It’s important because

has a
planning is designed to help
an organization define its
visión for a city’s future
• Emphasis on • Emphasis on strategies
determining • How the organization PROCESS
the vision will achieve its vision

Steps 1-3 Before a strategic planning retreat

• Do a 4) Define or review the

1) Agree on a 2) Carry out an “SWOT”
3) Identify key issues, questions, • Mission
• Community
strategic planning environmental • Consider and choices to be addressed as organization's values, Vision
process scan forces and part of the strategic planning effort. community vision, and mission. • Organizational
trends core values
Steps 4-7 During retreat
• Value • Program
7) Agree upon key strategies to • Resources 6) Develop a series Groups can do an 5) Develop a
• Appropriateness organization like
• Feasibility reach the goals and address key • Status of goals or shared vision
• Relationships broad categories
• Acceptability issues identified through the organizational or specific for the
• Cost-Benefit • Institutional Development
• Timing environmental scan. • Governance status statements charecteristics organization.

8) Develop an action plan 9) Finalize a written 10) Build in procedures for

that addresses goals and strategic plan that monitoring, and for modifying
specifies objectives and summarizes the results and strategies based on changes in
work plans on an annual decisions of the strategic the external environment or the
basis. planning process. organization.
8-10 After retreat