Strategic Planning and Results Based Management

DP-360 envisages strategic planning and results based management as the foundation stone of business and operational planning.

DP-360 provides a strategic management and performance improvement team that listens and learns from our clients while facilitating a review of the mission and goals of the organization in order to assess and analyze operational and performance needs. This provides the foundations on which to build a strategic plan that meets fully the unique organizational needs and aspirations of our clients.

Results based strategic planning is an inclusive, dynamic and transformative process that is built on the principles of performance orientated management. It systematically defines and prioritizes strategic areas of focus and creates a results based matrix supported by a logical activity framework designed to prioritize and map a route forward to achieve the desired result. It encourages a participative dialogue, embraces innovation and builds capacity and accountability to manage change and scale up proven effective practices as it focuses on managing interventions and challenges to achieve specific and tangible outcomes.

Together we build a results based chain with the following approach:

• Situation analysis to identify:
• Cause and effect
• Participative dialogue is used to build the results based plan:
  - Results: Specific, measurable, accountable, time-bound (SMART) statements of the product, process or service that must evolve or change to address cause and effect issues or challenges identified
  - Output: Performance based interventions linked to specific measurable outcomes that are underpinned by an activity and responsibility framework that also identifies key challenges associated with achieving immediate results
  - Input: Resources – time, human, financial, infrastructure etc required to achieve outputs and results
  - Outcome: Short and medium term results and the performance indicators that can be used to monitor and prioritize activities to create a progressive, sequential framework of achievable results
  - Impact: Long term effect and consequence of achieving outcomes.