URBS 4/511 Urban
Policy & Strategic Analysis
Implementing
the Plan
The most common mistake of planners is to come to
policy decision and neglect to plan the implementation of the decision.
- Project Implementation
Definition: Specify the following information to assist in designing the
implementation
- Project name
- Problem or
opportunity definition
- Project description
- Expected benefits
(in user terms--What can we do with it that we couldn't do
otherwise?)
- Consequences of
rejection
- Resource
requirements (people, time, money)
- Alternatives
- Other Considerations
- Authorization (all
who will be affected--the Japanese call it nemawashi)
- Project team
- Planning tools
- Gantt
- PERT/CPM
- Milestones
- Operations
- Competitive
advantage comes from
- process of human
resource mobilization
- quality
- JIT--Just In Time
(controlling the timing of production)
- capacity
- technology to
increase productivity of other resources
- Structure
- monolithic vs.
federated vs. Pluralistic
- directed vs.
Entrepreneurial
- Innovation (from Andy VandeVenn) comes from
- Managing attention
- Managing part/whole
relationships(complexity)
- Managing ideas into
good currency
- Institutional
leadership
- Evaluating Success of Plans
(Emily Talen,1996, Do plans get implemented, Journal of Planning
Literature, 10(3): 248-259): Consider
© 2009 A.J.Filipovitch
Revised 20 May 2009