Strategic Planning: The Benefits of Using a Roadmap

Synopsis: In today’s data-driven world, having a good strategic plan that leads to reliable and valid outcomes data is necessary. A good strategic plan ensures that your mission, goals, objectives, activities, strategies, and evaluation plan are in perfect, 2- way alignment, both downward and upward, and yields the type of accountability and data that you desire.

Learning Objectives: After reading and learning from this resource guide, you should be able to:

1. Explain the importance of having a clearly understood starting point.
2. Describe the importance of milestones/checkpoints along the way.
3. Explain why not having a strategic plan is like driving while blind.
4. List the questions that cannot be answered if an organization is driving blind.
5. Describe the 1795 method of strategic planning and the benefits it brings.