What happens next?
The publication of this Strategy is the first stage in a rolling planning process. The next stage will be the production of a new Corporate Plan. The Corporate Plan will take the objectives and targets from our existing ‘sub-strategies’ and will enhance and update them so as to align them with our new Strategic Aims. The Corporate Plan will not revolutionise our day-to-day activity but it will provide a mechanism for bringing activities and targets into closer alignment with our Strategy.
We have aligned our departmental planning and budget-setting procedures more closely with our Strategic Aims so that decisions about plans and budgets are taken in an integrated way. We will continue to introduce evolutionary improvements in these processes in 2006-07 and future years.
We will publish a further update to this Strategy document in the 2007-08. Our Strategic Aims will not have changed, but we will still want to report on what we have achieved in the coming year, and to show how we are dealing with issues that may have arisen over that time.
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