

Planning .:.
Select objectives that measure the accomplishment of goals.
- define policies that govern resource acquisition, use, and disposal
- find resources to acquire objectives
- adjust to changes in these objectives
Networking .:.
Key services and components for strategic action:
- Scan the environment
- Selection of “key” issues
- State vision/mission statements
- Conduct an external and internal analyses
- Develop goals, objectives and strategies
- Implementation actions selected
- Monitor, update, and re-scan
Model Selection .:.
The strategic model is one that:
- Emerges from a mutually beneficial partnership
- Allows for meaningful participation throughout the planning and design process
- Results in tactical implementation for a self-renewing design and planning solutions
- Provides opportunities for innovation in the use of materials and methods
- Promotes a “many-disciplines” discourse for collaborations to generate creative ideas
- Fit appropriately in physical, social, economic and cultural context
- Responds to concerns about environmental, operational and economic sustainability
- Allows participants to build/own the project
- Responds to concerns effectively and quickly