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Strategic Planning

What Strategic Planning Needs To Be
How Master Planning Can Help
How Master Planning is Transformational
Getting Ready to Plan — The Readiness Assessment
Finding the Golden Opportunities

 

What Strategic Planning Needs To Be

Most conventional strategic plans include numerous and broadly stated goals and strategies — too often mixing apples and oranges from a priority standpoint — and do not offer clear, measurable connections to the daily operations of the organization.

A strategic plan must be a simple-to-understand, clear, actionable road map. And while the board holds responsibility for thinking strategically about the organization's future, all employees must be able to articulate the strategic plan and understand how it affects their daily activities.

Board and staff should be highly collaborative in a dialogue about how the association's future strategy will unfold. Master Planning™ is a way to do strategic planning to achieve just that.

Master Planning integrates five key activities to achieve organizational transformation:

  • Environmental scanning
  • Hoshin-based planning principles
  • Market research
  • Organizational development interventions
  • Skills training

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Articles and Tools

 

Description: Master PlanningTM has its roots in a goal- and measurement-focused process called hoshin kanri. Hoshin-kanri emphasizes the voice of the customer and organizational alignment and concentration on resources to produce breakthrough strategies. It creates a simple-to-understand strategic roadmap that offers clear, measurable connections to daily operations.
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Description: This tool helps answer the questions of what membership, product, organization, etc. data we have, what data we need and where we can get it.
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Description: This tool is essential for conducting an environmental scan, beginning the planning process and identifying where there might be data gaps.
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