Community Development Services
Include Comprehensive Planning System
Lawrimore offers a powerful new 21st-Century form of action
planning and management to help communities cope with major
market-driven changes and prepare for the future. Traditional strategic
planning cannot handle rapid change. We developed our Comprehensive Planning
and Action Strategy System (COMPASS™) explicitly to empower communities to
meet the challenges of the 21st Century.
For example, these are some key differences between COMPASS and
traditional strategic planning:
| TRADITIONAL
STRATEGIC PLANNING |
COMPASS |
| Focuses on
creating a document to guide and constrain future actions |
Focuses on
creating structures and processes which can adapt and change as needed |
| Begins by
gathering a lot of data about the present situation |
Begins by
finding out what people’s issues are and gathers data as needed for
action |
| Top-level
group creates plan for others to implement |
People at all
levels involved in action teams which plan and implement |
| Improvements
are generally limited to what’s in the plan |
Improvements
are unlimited, continuous, and become a new way of thinking and working |
| Creates the
illusion of control by planning lots of details, timelines, and
tasks |
Accepts that
many variables can’t be controlled, and adaptation is key to success |
| Information
is typically limited to the goals and tasks outlined in the plan |
Continuous
information flow among all teams and from the environment is a top
priority |
| Emphasis on
being slow and deliberate |
Emphasis on
being quick and creative |
The COMPASS process can deliver the following key outcomes and benefits:
- Provides a system for continuously improving the productivity,
responsiveness and functionality of local government and its ability to
cope with changing challenges
- Generates a higher level of energy and enthusiasm for making
improvements
- Identifies most effective ways to achieve desired economic development
as well as to improve overall quality of life and other community issues
- Gives citizens a greater role in and understanding of their local
government, strengthening democracy and the community’s capacity for
dealing with challenges and opportunities
- Relieves elected officials and staff of the burden of dealing with
complex issues which by nature require citizen involvement, such as
managing growth, strengthening neighborhoods, small business development,
and educational or social concerns.
For more information on how this powerful system can strengthen your
community, visit our special website at
Strategic-Planning-Processes.com, call 704-332-4344 or
use our online contact form. |
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