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IMPLEMENTATION CONSIDERATIONS
When you have identified your solution strategies, the next steps
are:
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Implement the strategies; and
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Manage them through monitoring and evaluating the results,
modifying the strategies as appropriate.
THE PLANNING PROCESS AND IMPLEMENTING SOLUTIONS
Consider the following in planning and implementing solutions:
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Do you have clear objectives that are understood by all involved?
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Do you have the support of executives and/or key managers?
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Is your action plan consistent with strategic, operational,
and budget plans?
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What are the potential obstacles to your success?
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What can you do to minimize the impact of potential obstacles?
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Whom should you tell about the planning effort? Consider
developing a communications plan to keep people informed and
gain their support for what you are doing. Demonstrate to
them how the planning may benefit them.
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Are there instances when informing the union(s) would be
beneficial? Although staffing related issues are a management
prerogative and you don't have to involve the union(s), there
may be instances where informing them would help you achieve
your objectives.
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Would it be beneficial to put together a planning team? If
so, who should be on it? Consider program managers, representatives
from personnel, training, and organizational development,
the program's budgeting analyst, and an IT representative
if automation or information systems is a factor.
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What other people/groups will the planning process affect?
How should they be involved, if at all?
(See Implementation
for agency examples.)
EVALUATING YOUR EFFORT
Consider the following in evaluating the planning effort and
preparing for the next planning project. Most of these questions
will become relevant after you are fairly far along in implementing
your solutions.
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Has the strategic plan or other plans changed since the beginning
of your effort?
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If so, what are the implications for the strategies implemented?
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Have the strategies implemented achieved the intended results?
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What worked well? What didn't?
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To what extent have demand and supply projections been borne
out?
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Is a new analysis necessary before revising the strategies?
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What adjustments to the strategies are needed?
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What changes would you like to make to the planning process?
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What issue or organizational entity will be the subject of
your next planning effort?
(See Monitoring, Evaluation
and Improvement for agency examples.)
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