Benefits of Strategic Planning
Strategic planning serves a variety of purposes for organizations, including to:
- Build consensus about where an organization is going
- Clearly define the purpose of the organization and to establish realistic goals and objectives consistent with that mission in a defined time frame within the organization's capacity for implementation
- Communicate those goals and objectives to the organization's constituents
- Develop a sense of ownership of the plan
- Ensure the most effective use is made of the organization's resources by focusing the resources on the key priorities
- Provide a base from which progress can be measured and establish a mechanism for informed change when needed
Other reasons include that strategic planning:
- Bridges staff and Village Board
- Identifies and addresses major problems
- Increases productivity from increased efficiency and effectiveness
- Provides clearer focus for the organization, producing more efficiency and effectiveness