StrategicPlanningforChildWelfareSupervision.pptVIP

* Strategic Thinking to Align Initiatives and Integrate Management, Supervision, and Practice Melody Roe, MSW Associate Director NRC for Organizational Improvement March 25, 2010 Purpose Today Distinguish between strategic thinking and strategic planning Explore how strategic thinking has been used to align multiple plans and create more effective tools for moving agencies forward in three States: North Carolina Connecticut Florida * What is strategic thinking? Creating an ideal future by defining and achieving results that add value It is the way you think about, assess, view and create the future Considers: Agency priorities Drivers of those priorities Leverage points * How is strategic thinking different from strategic planning? Strategic planning: Continual formal process for increasing organizational performance by developing strategies to produce results Strategic thinking: Way of understanding the fundamental drivers of an agency Supplies the ‘input’ to produce strategic plans Uncovers opportunities, challenges existing assumptions * Why focus on strategic thinking vs. strategic planning? Maximize scarce resources Maintain focus on organizational vision and mission Create alignment Build on synergy created by common efforts across organizations and within the larger community * * * * * * * * * * *