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CDP preparation (click to enlarge)
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The preparation of the CDP content, including policies, strategies and activities, was elaborated in a highly participatory manner, involving all levels of managers and staff from within the service provider. Participatory methods, such as meta-plan, brainstorming, mind map, SWOT and TOWS, group work and participants’ moderation of working sessions, were applied. These participatory methods, even though not yet commonly applied, were appreciated by the participants and considered as a new approach for future internal analysis and planning procedures.
The reports contain the draft versions of the complete CDPs.
Download the reports and action plans:
The Rational of Corporate Planning
Strategic corporate planning is objective-driven. Enterprises first set their main development objectives, and then identify ways to achieve them. Actions are prioritized, and service providers are committing themselves to carrying out the highest-priority actions first. Unlike conventional development planning, strategic planning tends to focus on medium to long-term planning, and to take a strictly practical orientation. Thus, service providers include in their plans only those actions that are leading to tangible benefits. Finally, strategic planning is interdisciplinary; it aligns technical, financial, customer relations, and organizational measures into one integrated approach.
A particular requirement for each participating service provider is the establishment of an efficient wastewater management department within the existing structure. Hence, they prepared appropriate plans to establish suitable institutional, technical, and financial conditions which ensure sustainable operation and maintenance (O&M) of the existing and future infrastructure. An important aspect is the development of a human resources plan, and the implementation of training for improving the required skills for appropriate management and operations.
Corporate Planning Defined
The essence of management includes the ability to plan. As a manager moves upwards in an organization, the planning process changes in nature from an “operational” level to “strategic” or “corporate” level. Thus, corporate planning is one of the principal responsibilities of upper-level management.
Once management decides to create and follow a Corporate Plan, lower-level managers will prepare Action Plans.
Corporate Planning attempts to answer a very fundamental question:
Where do the company’s owner and management want the company to be in five years from now, what are the strategies, and what actions are required to make it happen?
Corporate Planning requires an organization to develop a vision of itself - how does management foresee the company to be in the future.
Corporate Planning takes a macro or “big picture” viewpoint, looking to a long-range perspective; whereas the Action Plan represents a micro viewpoint by planning the specific actions that should be carried out on a year to year basis for achieving the company’s medium to long term objectives.
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