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Management Challenges

Business plans are too complex to create, they are hard to communicate, managers are not held accountable for results, and it is hard to track progress against plan. As the volatility of the economy continues to grow, so too does the need to focus on the disciplined execution of a tight, well-developed and widely understood business plan. Successful business plans blend rigorous thinking with transparency in tracking progress against explicit, time-based objectives.

Benefits of One Page Business Plans

One of the greatest challenges of management is actually executing a business plan. Too often:

• Plans are too complicated - so no one understands them thus they end up in a drawer
• A "planning team" creates the plan - excluding those accountable for accomplishment
• Plans are disconnected from tracking - so they never get "accomplished"
• Strategies are not tied to objectives - wasting resources on unproductive activities
• The planning process is too complicated - so performance targets are allowed to slip
• Plans and progress are not transparent and current - lowering motivation  without a clear view of progress against goals
• Funders deny support for complex plans - they distrust those lacking clarity, transparency, agility and accountability
  

Whether for a company, business unit, program or project, the One Page Planning Process addresses each of these issues and provides transparency, accountability, managerial development, and business results at a far lower cost than traditional - and usually ineffective - strategic planning processes. With the right guidance, you can create robust plans that actually deliver results. Download a brochure describing how the planning system works and call (301) 320-5889 to discuss how you would benefit.

OPBP Plan Status

In a more complex organization, every manager has a plan and all plans are shown on a single organization chart. Everyone knows the status of every plan at all times - green for approved, yellow for draft and red for missing plans. Access to the current version of any plan is a click away.

Access all your organization's one page plans, performance scorecards and progress reports in one place, any time through this simple interface.

OPBP Scorecard

Within a plan, click on any objective to open a performance scorecard for that objective. Since each objective is described in clear, graphable terms (e.g., increase/decrease metric A from X to Y by date Z), progress can be tracked monthly against plan, budget or last year's actuals. Managers can add comments as needed to each objective to describe reasons for notable variance with planned progress. Other managers or supervisors can quickly understand the status and direction of every plan for which they are accountable.

Simplified and common format progress reporting saves managers precious report preparation time and  keeps a quickly understandable summary of progress against plan.

OPBP Progress Report

Each business plan has a number of Action Plans to indicate major projects that address the work to be done. Just like for Objectives, each Action Plan has a Progress Report to indicate how a manager is moving toward completion. Managers report % complete and note significant results, variance or challenges.

The system creates transparency and accountability by indicating which Performance Scorecards and Progress Reports have not been updated each month. Managers save time preparing reports and supervisor reviews are more effective because every manager's report is in one place and one format.

That's it! Planning and execution discipline comes from the expertise of the ROM consultant advising the client. We'll do some hard work, possibly with fierce conversations, to define vision, mission, objectives, strategies and action plans. This will give you a plan with real clarity that staff and stakeholders can easily understand and follow.

How Do I Find Out More?

If you want your business plan to be clear, your activities aligned, your managers accountable, your operations transparent and your performance delivering against your mission, then create a one page plan for your organization.

Call (301) 320-5889 for a 30-minute discussion about your current business needs and planning process and see how you can finally get everyone in your organization "on the same page."

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