Strategic Planning Guide

Work smarter not harder with DSC's Strategic Planning framework embedded in your day to day business activities.

Jun 28, 2021

Article updated Apr 15, 2024.

Often when we think of strategic planning, we ready ourselves for a day of facilitated planning for organisational growth over the next 1-5 years.

But the plan often then ends up lost in day to day business priorities and is only pulled out and dusted off, once a year, at audit time and at the end of the planning cycle, when frenzied activities begin.

A strategic planning framework is a different approach that takes the last-minute panic from planning. And when integrated into business and quality management activities becomes a business as usual process and much more than the development of a plan and facilitation of a day of “dreaming”.

Do you have a documented framework for strategic planning? This guide was created to assist providers to understand their requirements under the NDIS Quality and Safeguards requirements for planning. It outlines an approach for embedding strategic planning in day-to-day activities.

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Authors

Ann Drieberg

With over 25 years experience in the disability, mental health and aged care sectors, Ann understands the big picture of organisational success in the NDIS. Give Ann a complex problem and she will break it down to its workable bits and then collaborate with you to build the human solutions. Her ability to work at the heart of things is her superpower for the design and implementation of new systems and services in employment, accommodation, community inclusion and training. Ann has that rare mix of systems expertise with co-design nous that delivers outcomes that people own. She is our go-to for organisations wanting to develop through engaging the people that matter, from services users to the Board and everyone in between.