Direction Setting
Good strategy and planning should be more than an exercise in compliance. It should be a compelling, plain-language statement about where you are headed and why. It should give your staff direction and motivation, and it should give your external stakeholders a clear statement of what you will be accountable for.
We can help provide objective analysis and an informed perspective on whether your planning and policy documents are driving your organisation in the right direction.
The main services we provide in this area include:
For further information on these services contact:
Edward Guy eguy@rationale.co.nz
Strategic Planning
Your strategic plan is the foundation that underpins long-term decisions on priorities and allocation of resources. We can work with you to facilitate, design and write a plan or strategy that provides you with a compelling vision and strong accountability framework.
Specific ways we can help you:
- Facilitating workshops to develop your strategy, including Investment Logic Mapping
- Managing the development of your strategy or plan.
- Writing the plan/strategy or reviewing drafts.
- Completing targeted analysis to inform your approach.
Targeted Strategy Development
Targeted strategies provide you with the direction and actions you need to succeed. We work closely with you to ensure your strategy provides real value to your organisation through strong alignment to goals, tangible actions and industry-leading initiatives.
Specific ways we can help you:
- Facilitating workshops to develop your strategy, including Investment Logic Mapping.
- Researching industry standards and innovative approaches.
- Managing the development of your strategy or plan.
- Writing the plan/strategy or reviewing drafts.
- Engaging with your stakeholders to gain inputs and explain the direction.
Business Planning
Whether it is a local authority Annual Plan, a departmental Statement of Intent, or a corporate Business Plan, we can help you develop a document that will resonate. It will be well-linked to your strategic plans, provide you with clarity as to where and when resources need to be allocated, and have clear and measurable goals for the coming year.
Specific ways we can help you:
- Reviewing and updating key performance indicators
- Ensuring alignment between strategy, budgets and work programmes.
- Assisting with drafting.
Policy Advice
Good policy not only helps shape good planning, but is also critical to guiding decisions on how to tackle specific problems. Our team has worked in strategic and operational policy across local and central government and can help lend objectivity and critical analysis to your policy setting.
Specific ways we can help you:
- Vision setting – using investment logic mapping to assist this process.
- Problem identification with current policy settings.
- Reviewing alternative policy frameworks.
- Engaging stakeholders and partners for their views and expertise.
- Drafting and peer reviewing policy documents.
Problem Navigation
Rationale specialises in helping you understand and work through your most challenging problems. We put a lot of emphasis on understanding the challenge up front and using a collaborative approach to finding the right solution. We often play a leadership role in guiding organisations through challenge while underpinning this with agreed decision-making frameworks.
Specific ways we can help you:
- Issues identification and analysis.
- Development of decision making frameworks.
- Guiding varied stakeholders through planning steps towards a common goal.
- Establishing projects or programmes to work through the problem in a productive way.