Arnold Center
Outcome Management & Strategic Planning

The Purpose of Strategic Planning and Outcome Management is to improve the chances of reaching desirable possible outcomes for our customers.... to create our future, not to predict it.

Benefits.  These processes enable an organization to:

1.                  prepare for contingencies that could prevent it from attaining its goals;

2.                  prepare a framework for the organization’s orderly growth and progress, and

3.                  have a strategy for the allocation of resources in a manner that will allow the organization to meet its goals.

 

Definition.  These processes are not a quick fix.  They are long-term investments with payoffs that increase over time.  It also is not a magic wand.  Any plan must be accompanied by commitment and action if it is to achieve results.

 

Strategic Planning and Outcome Management are:   

·        a defined, long-term, future-oriented process of assessment, goal setting, and strategy building that maps a common sense approach to anticipating a future that is both desirable and achievable.

·        a careful consideration of an organization’s capabilities and environment that leads to priority-based resource allocation and other decisions. 

·        a disciplined effort to produce fundamental decisions and actions that guide and shape what an organization is, what it does, and why it does it. 

·        an essential tool that permits an organization to be adaptable to ever changing, increasingly complex environments. 

·        a long-range approach that requires regular reviews and updates to check progress and reassess the validity of the plan.

·        a participatory process that considers the needs and expectations of customers and stakeholders (including policy-makers) in defining missions, goals, and performance measures.

·        a structure for inspired, yet practical decision-making and follow-through.

 

Arnold Center, Inc.'s current Strategic Plan and Outcome Management/Strategic Planning reports are available upon request.
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