Every Utility Needs a Long-Range Plan.

Laying the foundation for long-range decisions and policies is an essential step in utility success.  Having a thorough strategic plan helps in rallying the much-needed support from your customers, community, leaders, and regulatory bodies.  The plan can be your most important asset in obtaining financing.  Strategic plans are long-range, and typically cover periods of 20 years or longer.  A typical strategic planning process:

• Usually starts with a “vision” of your community’s future and a statement of your mission - or  how you will achieve that vision.

• Takes an in-depth look at the existing situation and listens carefully to “stakeholders” who can help or hinder the plan’s success.

• Brings out all the ideas that you and the other stakeholders can think of.

• Lays out major programs, their costs, and their implementation schedules.

• Demonstrates the advantages of implementing the plan.

• Identifies actions that are critical for the plan’s success.

• Identifies who must take critical actions and when they must do so.

The strategic plan must be your ideas, your knowledge, your decisions – not your consultant’s.  So how does Envirosmith fit into the planning process?  As your consultant, Envirosmith brings experience, knowledge , and a fresh, impartial view of the situation.  We will:

• Guide the process

•  Assess the present situation realistically

•  Involve stakeholders constructively

• Recognize and address good ideas

• Generate our own good ideas

•  Add technical expertise

•  Identify viable options, their costs, schedules, and prerequisites

•  Develop the comprehensive plan

•  Make the plan presentable – for use as a decision guide, a communications tool, and a sales document

For an example of successful strategic planning, see Strategic Plan Yields US $50 Million Loan.  

Email: jimson@mindspring.com