Operation Planning for your Company

Operation planning is the process of planning strategic goals and objectives to tactical goals and objectives. It describes milestones, conditions for success and explains how, or what portion of a strategic plan will be put into operation during a given period, in the case of commercial application, a fiscal year or another given budgetary term. An operational plan is a basis for and justification of an annual operating budget request.

Operation planning should establish the activities and budgets for each part of the organization for the next 1–3 years. They link the strategic plan with the activities, the organization will deliver and the resources required to deliver them.

Operation planning draws directly from agency and program strategic plans to describe agency and program missions and goals, program objectives, and program activities. Like a strategic plan, an operational plan addresses four questions and has to be: Where are we now? Where do we want to be? How do we get there? And - How do we measure our progress?

Operation Planning has to be a highly detailed plan that provides a clear picture of how a team, section or department will contribute to the achievement of the organization’s goals. The operational plan maps out the day-to-day tasks required to run a business and cover.

The plan covers the what, the who, the when, and how much:

• What - the strategies and tasks to be achieved and completed.
• Who - the individuals who have responsibility for each task strategy and task.
• When - the timeline for which the strategies and tasks must be completed.
• How much – the financial resources available to complete a strategy/task.

The operations planning is both the first and the last step in preparing an operating budget request. As the first step, the operations planning provides a plan for resource allocation; as the last step, the operational planning may be modified to reflect policy decisions or financial changes made during the budget development process.

Operation planning should be prepared by the people who will be involved in implementation. There is often a need for significant cross-departmental dialogue as plans created by one part of the organization inevitably have implications for other parts.

Our Operation plan contains:

• Clear objectives
• Activities to be delivered
• Quality standards
• Desired outcomes
• Staffing and resource requirements
• Implementation timetables
• A process for monitoring progresss

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