Strategic Planning and Management in Transit Agencies (2005) / Chapter Skim
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Chapter Five - Conclusions
Chapter Five - Conclusions
Pages 31-33
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that found that not many publicly funded transportation agencies "seem to have a strong interest in or understanding of strategic management." Although strategic planning and management are quite prevalent among the agencies surveyed, there is a wide spectrum of planning methods used and planning documents that are produced. Only one agency reported that it did not have a specific plan document, but instead looked at various planning processes and related deliverables.
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– One way to encourage strategic management is to closely link the strategic planning process to other important business processes such as budgeting, capital programming, and performance measurement. To be accomplished, the plan has to translate into necessary resources, and monitoring is essential to ensure that plan goals and objectives are being achieved.
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Another area for research would be in regard to techniques for accelerating the strategic planning process and more effectively involving multiple and diverse stakeholders, particularly external stakeholders. One such technique is the "future search conference," a process that engages key stakeholders in a 2 to 3 day retreat that creates a vision of a desired future and then develops strategies and action plans for achieving it.
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