implementing plans & Starategies

strategy matters

• Getting from strategic planning to strategic management is a big step
• A well-executed plan adopts strategies and solutions as problems arise
• Programs, projects, action plans, and budgets track resullts
• STRATEGIC PLAN + IMPLEMENTATION+GOALS = ADDED PUBLIC VALUE

"with effective implementation the strategic plans become "not only persuasive, but constitutive...of community, character and culture."
-James Throgmorton

How to keep it going

challenges: Avoidance of Failure

• Avoidance of failure
• Development of clear understanding
• Debugging the process 
• Evaluate and Assess
• Retention of Value

challenges: Understanding

• Successful Implementation = Redesign of organizational setting
• Establishment of Key Learning
• Operational processes 
• Poor incentives

PUBLIC VALUE

• The real public value comes from these subordinate outcomes 
• Subordinate outcomes provide larger value
• Leverages the organization's strengths 
• Poor incentives

Success =Measurement

• Performance Measurement is becoming standard practice
• Allows for transparency and efficiency with knowledge of what works
• Effective performance measures guide strategy and help inform
• Links mission, vision, values, budgeting and program management together
• Programs should have purpose, processes, best practices, and goals

Budgets

• Budget allocations are crucial to understanding plans and investments
• While planning use master calendar to predict budgetary restraints / opps.
• Entrepreneruial budgeting: advance strategic purpose if all for same goal
• Involve strategy with implementation
• Choose centralized or decentralized

Process Design

• Understand history
• Implement policy documents
• Find quick easy changes with impact
• Use project management guidelines
• Link new initiatives with current

People & Process

• Consider resources: people, time and talent
• Move quickly with deadlines and goals
• Develop coalition
• Consider the culture
• Emphasize growth and learning