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Strategic Planning is the development of an interactive process to assist an organization to meet its goals and objectives. UEM has undertaken many strategic planning programs involving the development and implementation of systems approaches involving the needs and priorities of organizations. The UEM approach also involves identifying the human, financial and technical resources that must be allocated to meet organizational expectations and schedules.
UEM provides the experienced leadership to assist our clients in defining goals and objectives. This is completed by our facilitators in an organized setting, having regard to the variety of organization needs, their collective knowledge, and its long term visioning. These group exercises in future thinking produce tangible benefits to an organization and are an important first step to a strategic planning exercise.
Key to all strategic planning exercises is the identification of stakeholders and the scope of potential planning issues. The product is a supporting and integral stakeholder consultation program. This program must provide legitimate and regular opportunities for stakeholder involvement and input. The UEM consultation program recognizes the need for flexibility as stakeholders and project issues change. Most importantly, the program must include mechanisms that ensure that all issues are addressed, that the processes of issues resolutionis monitored and that all stakeholder input is considered in the strategic planning process.
The strategic planning process must be rational, comparative and milstone focused. By rational it must follow a series of agreed to steps and deliverables. The process is comparative so that options are considered having regard to the identification of program risks and to community priorites and expectations. Finally it is milestone focused so that outcomes are arrived at, reviewed and decisions made.
UEM has completed strategic planning in support of environmental management, land use and policy planning, infrastructure development and in response to provincial objectives such as drinking water strategy and asset management reporting. UEM can develop a specific program to meet the needs of organizations looking to develop long term programs that require practical and implementable solutions.
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