The Planning Cycle
Ideally organizations should be running two planning cycles per year.
For example the spring season should find a business or a community looking ahead to determine what investments can position them better and make them stronger.
This is the strategic planning cycle. It is a time when the development team is encouraged to form a vision for the future.
This is where tomorrow starts.
Implementing the Plan
When the fall season rolls around it’s time to get the job done and so the summer is called the tactical planning cycle and it is the time for project and implementation planning.
What was in the strategic plan must now become manifested as real products and real programs. Dreams must now become reality.
This tactical planning cycle is also used for loan applications and for seeking opportunity by forming new strategic partnerships and seeking alliances and suppliers.
That new product line you were going to introduce must now be rolled out. The new Park that is needed must be funded and the equipment ordered and the project plan built and the work must begin before the snow falls. Come spring the final touches are added and by that summer the residents are enjoying their new park, or concert hall, or using improved fire equipment.
CEDA can help you in the many ways already described to create your strategic plans and turn them into practical action plans. We can also help in obtaining the funding and creating that evasive something for your community and business called: “Quality of Life.”
It all starts with good planning!