1 Strategic Planning • What is it? • Systematic planning process • Identifies mission, vision, goals • Acknowledges strengths and weaknesses • Analyzes threats and opportunities • Provides structure for organizational operations • Sets direction for several years’ of substantive work • Facilitates budgeting and human capital planning
Notes by Don Drach on Strategic Planning for Supreme Audit Institutions based on USGAO and INTOSAI strategic plans
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Strategic Planning
• What is it?
• Systematic planning process• Identifies mission, vision, goals• Acknowledges strengths and weaknesses• Analyzes threats and opportunities• Provides structure for organizational operations• Sets direction for several years’ of substantive work• Facilitates budgeting and human capital planning
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Strategic Planning at GAO
• First strategic plan prepared in 2000
• Updates: June 2002, March 2004, March 2007
• Current 2010-2015 plan issued July 2010
• GPRA amendments of 2011 change cycle to 4 years (vs. 3)
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Strategic Planning at GAO
Strategic Planfor Serving the Congress and the
American People
Annual Performance Budget
Risk-Based Engagement
Management Process
Resource Planning
Align Organizational Structure
Annual Performance & Accountability Reports
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Strategic Planning at GAO
• Involves many stakeholders, both internal and external• Project leaders report to GAO’s Executive Committee • Begins with formal discussions on expectations• Environmental scan performed early in the process• Draft the plan with team input• Obtain reviews and approvals• Congressional and stakeholder comments• Publish the plan• Align accounting and activity codes with new goals• Monitor plan performance
1. Evolving National security Threats2. Fiscal Sustainability Challenges3. Economic Recovery and Growth4. Global Interdependence and Shifts in Power5. Scientific and Technological Advances6. Virtualization7. Shifting Demands on Government8. Demographic and Societal Change
e.g., Rising poverty and pressing issues among children and young adults join aging and increasing diversity as key societal trends affecting demand for government services.
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• Both managers and staff develop and update plan
• Senior managers — Overall mission, core values, and strategic goals and objectives
• Team/office managers and staff — Specific performance goals and key efforts
Drafting the Plan
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GAO’s Strategic Planning Hierarchy
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Review, Approval, and Publication
• Draft plan reviewed internally by Executive Committee and team and office heads
• Approved draft electronically sent to major stakeholders (such as Congressional committees and CGAB) for comment
• Final strategic plan consists of one document• Acting CG’s transmittal letter serves as the de facto summary• Discussion of 8 trends relates GAO work to broader context• Body captures planned work on fiscal crisis, economic
recovery, financial and health care reform, etc.• Published copies sent to top managers, GAO’s appropriations and