Strategic Plan Elements

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Strategic Plan Elements
Element
Definition
Key Questions Answered
Mission
Comprehensive Statement covering major functions
and operations of the agency 1
Why do we exist? What is our purpose? For whom
are we here?
Vision
Inspirational, forward-thinking view of what the
organization wants to become
What do we want to be in the future? What is our
ideal state?
Goal
Goal
Goal
Goal
The top priorities, actions, that would achieve
the vision
What high level priorities can help us realize
our Vision and deliver against our Mission?
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Set of measurable, realistic outcomes that
collectively support goal attainment
How can our goals be broken down in to measurable
outcomes?
Performance Indicators
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Objectives
Which areas of focus can we identify within our
Objectives to achieve measurement targets?
How? What? When? Where? Who?
Description of how the objectives are to be
achieved, including resource requirements
Strategies
Alignment
Specific, justifiable projects that have direct
linkage to strategies, objectives and goals
What projects/activities support our strategies
in achieving measurement targets?
Initiatives
Initiatives
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Relationship of Strategic Plan Elements
Specific Performance Goals
Strategic Goals Objectives
Performance Targets
Performance Output
Performance Results
Performance Measures
Vision
Mission
What are we called to do? How does our leadership want to accomplish our Mission? If we did these things, we would succeed in our Mission How can we know that we are on the right track? How we verify that we are on track Benchmarks and milestones that tell us how we are doing along the way Concrete results of our efforts The achievement of what we set out to do.
Strategic Goals and Performance Metrics
will always link back to the Mission How does
the Goal help achieve the mission? What progress
does this Metric reflect?
Promote integrity, account-ability, improvement of org To be one professional team, strengthen integrity, efficiency, effectiveness Improve economy, efficiency of org -people, programs, operations Reach _ per1 budgeted of Recom-mendations acted upon ROI Reports on key areas Recommend-ations acted on target reports, areas Recoms Statistical data Actions Have we made a difference? Improved Company actions
Examples