your strategic plan strategic template. twelve critical scaling questions 1. what are your social...
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Twelve Critical Scaling Questions1. What are your social impact scaling goals? (Refer to slides) What strategies will you use to scale your project? (Refer to
slides) What key activities (in the next three years) will you employ
to implement these strategies? What are the main challenges/threats you will face in scaling
your impact; how will you overcome these challenges?2. How will scaling lead to sustainability?3. Internal issues: What organizational structure will be required
to implement scaling strategies? What will be the human resource needs and management structure? How will the governance structure or board members (composition)
need to change or adapt to achieve scaling objectives? How much approximately will scaling up cost (next three years),
and how will you finance these costs? How will scaling impact your organization’s culture and core
values? What systems, procedures, policies will be required to scale
your project? 4. How will you measure your success?
Creating Strategies
Strategic Goal = solve a problem
Intermediate Objectives = causes of the problem
Strategies = solutions
Implementation = Actions
Setting Strategic Goal
Exercise Refer back to problem analysis which is the basis of focus for your activities
Restate problem as a positive situation. If the problem did not exist what would the situation be?
This is your strategic goal Write down indicators will inform that overall goal has been achieved?
Intermediate Objectives Directly related to the causes of the problem
Measurable
Example Problem: high crime rate in community Goal: Reduce crime in community Cause: unemployment/underemployment Intermediate objective: decrease unemployment by 30% in the community
What are the intermediate objectives?
Write down indicators will inform that intermediate objective(s) has been achieved?
Strategies
Strategy is aimed at contributing to the achievement of the overall goal by achieving the intermediate objective(s).
Describe outputs
Strategies Example Intermediate objective: decrease unemployment by 30% in the community
Strategies: Provide vocational skills training in given market niches
Micro loans by establishing a credit Create business incubator Employment placement program Create a social enterprise
Activities Activities: actions that support the realization of strategies
Example: Strategy: Provide vocational skills training in given market niches
Activities: Conduct market research on workplace skills deficit/demand in community
Resources required to deliver vocational skills training
Research barriers community members to participate Design vocational education program to mitigate barriers
Develop partnerships through educational providers Develop curriculum plan, advertise/recruit Tie into job placement program
Action Plan Activity (prioritize strategies)
Resources (people, money, space, etc.) must used to achieve goals.
Timeline / deadline Specify responsible person/people
Outcomes
Four Eyes Example
Problem Statement Nearly 1.6 billion people in the developing world need reading glasses, but less than 5% have access to affordable options.
Critical Issues Low market awareness of need for reading glasses or availability of product.
Rural distribution expensive Viability of business model requires achieve scales of economy and volume-based scale
Many people suffer from more serious problems than blurry up-close vision
Reading glasses are expensive and only available through optometrists / not found in rural areas
Four Eye’s Goals & Objectives
Strategic Goal Increase the number of people with
access to affordable reading glasses
Intermediate Objectives Develop markets for reading glasses
at the base of the economic pyramid Create jobs for local entrepreneurs Facilitate access to comprehensive
eye care Create a sustainable distribution
model
Four Eye’s Strategies Select, train, equip and fund local entrepreneurs to establish new businesses that sell reading glasses.
Provide high-quality, affordable reading glasses for our programs.
Bring reading glasses and referral services directly to the customer at the village level.
Conduct innovative and locally relevant social marketing campaigns to raise awareness about blurry up-close vision.
Expand distribution in urban areas through mainstream suppliers: chemists, department stores, etc.
Definition Strategic implications - how certain information impacts or influences a strategy or plan to meet specific goals or objectives.
Internal Implications (1)
Challenge or change strategic fit: Mission and program / methodology Stakeholders Social market
Organizational Culture Small vs. large Centralized vs. decentralized Informal vs. formal Reactive vs. proactive
Internal Implications (2)
Organizational Capacity Managerial skills
Recruitment Retention
Leadership Succession planning Board development Role of founder
Delivery structures: build a hierarchy / decentralize ?
Internal MIS Formal processes / procedures / planning Infrastructure
Internal Implications (3)
External Partnership building Network relations Government relations / policy Supply chain development
Cost Expenditure prioritization Financing scaling
Other Issues Metrics Accountability Transparency
Potential Problems Resistance to change: Board Management Staff Clients Donors Public Communities Government Etc.
Need to: change leadership or find new role for leader
make some staff redundant
hire new/different expertise
raise additional funds
plan/invest in systems or infrastructure