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NEWSNOTES Vol. 95 July 2010 |
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Analyze and Prioritize the Findings of Your Assessment
by Rosemary Bayer and Lee Gorman Welcome back! It's hard to believe that it's July already! But here we are, and we know everyone did their homework from last month, and you have at hand your list of potential projects that came out of last month's operational assessment. Right? This month we will take that list of potential operational improvement projects and initiatives and help you with analyzing and prioritizing – so you get the biggest bang (fireworks pun intended!) out of your effort. With our practical, get-to-work nature, we decided to go about this with a score sheet. While you can always bend the input to help you choose the projects you really want to do anyway, this approach provides an opportunity to be as unbiased as possible in your decision-making. Using the information gathered from the operational assessment, list your improvement projects and initiatives across the top and score each success factor as indicated.
Looking at the relative scores of your potential projects can help you prioritize the order of execution. Perhaps more importantly, as you review, think about, and discuss these success factors, you may take some of the projects off the list completely, and you may see the level of importance for certain things raise others to the top. Feel free to change the weighting factors to align better with your organization.
In the first three articles of this series, we talked about the importance of strategy, understanding your mission and vision, and looking at strategic goals and priorities. Then the more recent articles have walked you through defining your outcomes and assessing your performance and operational capacity, where you may have found opportunities for enhancement, growth and improvement! Now comes the tough part: implementation. Next month we will talk about how to develop good action plans to implement your strategic plan, and the importance of establishing a process to keep them current. We'll follow that up in September with more specifics on implementing those operational improvement projects that got high scores today!
See you in August! Rosemary Bayer is Chief Inspiration Officer for ardentCause, L3C, a company dedicated to helping nonprofits increase capacity through operational performance improvement and the adroit use of technology. She has 25 years in the Information Technology industry, and excels at inspiring varied groups of people to pursue a common vision, as well as problem solving and inventing. Experienced in both for-profit and not-for-profit ventures, she was a founder of the non-profit Michigan Council of Women in Technology (now 650-plus members) and founder and president of the MCWT Foundation. Lee Gorman, the founder of Barton Consulting Services, LLC, is an insightful, results-oriented executive with over 25 years of diverse experience in strategic planning, product planning, implementation and leadership. She has particular expertise in assisting organizations to understand and articulate their missions, visions, and values statements, and then to develop specific goals and strategic priorities. She has demonstrated this proficiency in health care, educational, automotive, and other for-profit and non-profit businesses.
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