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Strategic Planning Efforts in State Government

Strategic Planning Efforts in State Government. Connecticut Legislative Program Review Committee Forum on Models of Strategic Planning Efforts November 8, 2007 The Council of State Governments. What is Strategic Planning?.

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Strategic Planning Efforts in State Government

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  1. Strategic Planning Efforts in State Government Connecticut Legislative Program Review Committee Forum on Models of Strategic Planning Efforts November 8, 2007 The Council of State Governments

  2. What is Strategic Planning? • Strategic planning is defined as a systematic process for managing a state, or agency, and its future direction in relation to its environment and the demands of its external constituencies.

  3. The phrase “strategic planning” is often used interchangeably with the term “long-term planning” because of multi-year timeframe.

  4. Unlike strategic planning, however, long-term planning, or a futures project, deals primarily with vision, goals and objectives without specific implementation strategies, action plans, timeframes, performance measurement or progress evaluations.

  5. State Long-term Planning and Futures Commission Projects • Hawaii Commission on the Year 2000 (1970) • Goals for Georgia (1971-72) • Goals for Louisiana (1972) • Iowa 2000 (1972-78) • Commission on Minnesota’s Future (1973-77) • Delaware Tomorrow (1974-75) • Kansas 2000 (1974) • Ohio 2000 (1974)

  6. Alternatives for Washington (1974-77) • Commission on Maine’s Future (1977) • Future of South Dakota (1977-78) • Task Force on the Future of Illinois (1977-80) • Oregon 2000 Commission (1978-81) • Choices for Pennsylvania (1979-81) • Colorado Front Range Project (1979-81) • Commission on the Future of Nevada (1979-80) • North Carolina 2000 (1981-83)

  7. Texas 2000 Commission (1981-83) • Governor’s Commission on Virginia’s Future (1989) • New Horizons for Nebraska (1988-90) • Governor’s Commission on Arkansas’ Future (1989) • Vision Colorado 2000 (1989) • North Dakota Committee on the Year 2000 (1989) • Commission on Maine’s Future (1989) • Commission on the Future of South Carolina (1989) • Governor’s Commission on New Hampshire in the 21st Century (1989)

  8. Models of Long-term Planning • Public-private futures commission model operating with state government but outside the government structure • Citizens’ futures commission model operating without formal interactions with state government • Traditional agency planning model operating as part of expanded state planning activities • Legislative foresight model operating by a special unit within the legislature

  9. Long-term planning methods: • Visioning/Goal-setting • Emerging Issue Identification/Management • Scanning/Trends Analysis • Alternative Futures/scenarios • Key Questions: • Where are we now? • Where are the trends taking us? • Where do we want to go? • What do we need to do to get there?

  10. What is Strategic Planning? • Strategic planning is defined as a systematic processfor managing a state, or agency, and its future direction in relation to its environment and the demands of its external constituencies.

  11. Why Strategic Planning? • To provide a clear articulation of the vision and mission of a state government (or agency) with a sense of priorities, goals, objectives and tasks. • To provide an opportunity to reflect on the context within which the state government (or agency) will operate in the future.

  12. To improve communications to achieve more effective coordination within a state government (or agency). • To provide specific goals and objects to be measured for more for effective and efficient operations of state government (or agency). • To provide a coherent view of the state government to various stakeholders, including the governor, legislature, courts, local governments, private sector, civic groups and citizens.

  13. Types of Strategic Planning • Basis of Strategic Planning • Statute • Administrative rule • Executive order • Agency discretion • Scope of Strategic Planning • State-wide, 3-branch planning • Individual branch planning • Executive-legislative planning • Individual agency planning

  14. Strategic Planning in State Gov’t: Lessons Learned • Individual agency-oriented planning efforts • Lack of consistency and uniformity among agencies • Difficulty in state-wide planning due to short-term oriented governing • Discontinuity or no compliance due to turnovers • Lack of updates, measurement and reporting • Failure in linking planning, budgeting & management • Absence of institutional mechanisms • Lack of leadership commitment

  15. Models of Strategic Planning • Council on Virginia’s Future and “Virginia Performs” • Vision, goals, strategies, tasks, measurement • Legislative-executive-private collaboration with citizen participation • Government Management Accountability and Performance in Washington State • Gubernatorial initiative, executive-branch-wide • Citizen forums, reporting to the public • Strategic Planning Guidelines in Delaware • Uniform, standard steps and performance measurement

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