Many agencies create a strategic plan with the hope of addressing those community needs, but it often ends up as a stagnant document without a real path to make those plans a reality. To keep up with changing needs and build community resilience in the face of new challenges, an agency’s strategic plan needs to be an actionable blueprint that paves the way for sustainable growth and improvement. The missing piece: the budget.
Unfortunately, translating long-term goals into daily operations is challenging for most agencies. The true test of a plan lies in integrating these strategies into the budget—empowering action and gaining the ability to measure impact.
In this white paper, we explore:
- Why the current, disconnected approach to strategic planning and budgeting fails
- How public agencies can implement their plans through their budget
- How purpose-built administrative technology helps connect goals, to action, to impact.