Strategic Planning

Strategic planning outlines an organization’s direction for the upcoming year or more, detailing the means to achieve its goals and methods to assess success. Typically, strategic plans encompass the entire organization, whereas business plans typically focus on a specific product, service, or program. This section provides insights into the strategic planning process and offers samples and templates of ACE Mentor affiliate strategic plans.

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MATURITY MATRIX - AFFILIATE EVALUATION

Effective standards help ACE improve the quality, consistency, and continuity of programming and operations throughout all the communities we serve.  These standards, set forth in a Maturity Matrix, enable individual affiliates to assess themselves, while allowing ACE National to evaluate the program overall. 

- ACE AFFILIATE MATURITY MATRIX

- INTRODUCTION TO THE MATURITY MATRIX

STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS

A general process for developing a strategic plan is usefully explained in the following presentation created by FMI, a management consulting firm serving the design and construction industry. The San Francisco affiliate created a strategic planning process roughly similar to what FMI proposes.

- FMI PRESENTATION | 2015

- SAN FRANCISCO PLANNING PROCESS | 2014