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Strategic
& Operational Planning
Strategic Planning
CoWorking Solutions has
been providing strategic planning services to both public and private sector
clients for the past 5 years. We can provide a short term audit, review and
improvement service for existing operational business plans, or a complete
strategic planning service from initial pre-planning market research through
to the integration of strategic objectives with operational budgets and employee
performance objectives.
We integrate simple to use strategic planning tools
with methodologies based on Scenario Planning, Open Systems and Complexity
Theory. These tools and systems are an intrinsic part of our collaborative
team-based philosophy to management which is designed to maximise stakeholder
participation and improve the quality of organisational outcomes. Our
business solutions are simple to understand and easy to use, ensuring they
are quickly adopted and integrated into your day to day business management.
Strategic Planning Audit
A strategic planning audit consists
of a review of the client's current Vision, Mission and Values Statements,
as well as its Primary Goals, Key Strategies and Actions. We seek evidence
of their understanding, influence and achievement throughout the organisation:
from clients and suppliers, in business plans, operational budgets, organisational
performance indicators and employee performance agreements
Strategic Planning Service
If a full strategic plan review
is required, using the audit as the initial point of reference, we then work
with our client and their stakeholders in a series of highly interactive steps
to collaboratively develop their own unique strategic plan. Common features
include:
- Strategic Planning Education
Workshops
- Vision, Mission and Values
Statements
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Internal Operational Capability
Review
- External Environment Review
- Key Result Areas
- Scenario Planning
- Primary Goals & Key Strategies
- Core Actions and Performance
Indicators
- Marketing and Communication
Strategies
- Implementation Plans
- Review Mechanisms
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Operational Planning
Many organisations spend substantial time,
effort and money to develop strategic plans and then fail when they try to
translate their strategic vision and objectives down to operational level
plans and actions. If left unresolved, the end result is disillusioned staff,
forgotten strategic plans and indifferent outcomes.
The answer to five simple questions
will tell you if your business units and work groups are on track or falling
behind in operational implementation:
- Are you setting SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Resourced,
Timely) short term (6 to12 monthly) goals for your work groups?
- Do all of your line employees have ready access to and ownership
of these short term goals? And can they express them in their own words?
- Are your employees receiving meaningful and timely feedback
on their progress toward these goals?
- Are these goals adequately resourced in your yearly budgets?
and staff resourcing?
- Do your immediate customers and stakeholders know what you
are trying to achieve and are they providing meaningful feedback to you on
your success?
If your answers to these questions leaves you feeling
there is room for improvement, then Co-Working Solutions can help. We can
audit your organisational systems and work processes for strategic alignment,
identify areas for improvement and help you to implement the changes required
to get your business back on the track to effective strategic delivery.
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Integrating Strategic and Operational Planning
Everyone understands and accepts that the development and management of
employee performance is critical to the achievement of organisational outcomes,
both long and short term - but this is the last step in strategic performance
alignment. Before employees can be effective in their work, organisations
must be effective in their strategic planning and in their ability to cascade
this process down through operational budgets, operational plans, work group
and project team goals and finally to individual employees and their performance
development plans and goals.
Integration of Strategic, Operational and Employee performance requires
the alignment of five key business management functions.
Cascading Strategic Performance
Alignment
1Organisational Strategic Plans
2 Organisational Budgets
3 Divisional
Strategic / Operational Plans
4 Unit / Workgroup Plans
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Individual Performance Plans
How can you tell if organisational
performance is properly aligned?
For one thing, you can measure this alignment
not just from the management, financial or client perspective, but also from
the employee's viewpoint. Without clear and well understood organisational
and business unit goals and performance measures, employees will lack clarity
of direction and purpose.
Can your employees:
- Identify and align with
the long term direction and aspirations of your organisation (your organisation's
vision)?
- Directly link at least some
of their day to day work to specific objectives and actions in the organisational
strategic plan?
- Refer to and continually
monitor the specific results that will constitute success of those actions?
- Receive continual feedback
on performance and regular updates on changing organisational, business unit
and personal goals and performance measures?
If your employees can not do these things with
a minimum of effort, then there is room for improvement in the deployment
of your performance systems. CoWorking Solutions offer a range of services
to improve organisational, business unit and individual performance. Our
processes and systems are based on the collaborative development of goals,
performance measures, outcomes and feedback systems to ensure sustained long
term improvement.
Strategic & Operational Planning Services
Available:
- Strategic and Operational Planning Audits
- Full Strategic Planning Reviews
- Stakeholder Audits
- Internal Operational Capability Reviews
- External Environmental Reviews
- Operational Planning Reviews
- Planning Workshop Facilitation
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Feel free to download any of our free Strategic Thinking Resources on the righthand side
of this page, or contact us directly
for more information.
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