RAPID RESULTS APPROACH

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RAPID RESULTS APPROACH

• APPLYING THE TOOL TO AfCOP
• Implementing the Work Plan
• 2nd Annual meeting 27-30 November 2008
• Mauritius

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Todays Objectives

• Introduce the Rapid-Results Approach Process
• Work to
• Define Rapid-Results Goal
• Develop Work Plan to achieve the goal
• Agree on how teams will operate

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Implementation is Tough

• 50 of projects fail to achieve their objectives
• 75 of projects come in over budget and/or behind
  schedule

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Why Implementation is tough?

• Goal is in the distant future
• Being busy with too many things
• Leaving tasks ill-defined and vague
• Not making it clear who is in charge
• Making things very complex and interdependent

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Implementation Risk
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The Rapid Results Approach

• Rapid Results Approach (RRA) is a results-focused
  learning process (methodology) aimed at
  jump-starting major organizational change efforts
  and enhancing implementation capacity.
• RRA tackles large-scale medium and long-term
  change efforts through a series of small-scale,
  results-producing and momentum-building
  initiatives implemented within 100-days, commonly
  referred to as 100-day Rapid Results Initiative
  (RRI).

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Rapid Results Approach Cont

• These short-term 100-day initiative goals
  therefore form the building block towards the
  achievement of the long-term goals
• The premise of the Rapid-Results Approach is to
  create a context for learning and for enhancing
  implementation capacity
• Helps organizations work on sharply defined
  100-day initiatives that dovetail into Annual
  Work Plans and Strategic Plans

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Rapid Approach

• The approach is an RBM tool designed to help
  teams avoid implementation challenges
• A results focused learning methodology (Action
  Learning)
• Jump-starts major organizational change efforts

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Results Focus

• A results-focused approach to implementing
  strategy
• Breaks down long-term goals into 100-day Results
  Commitments
• Enhances practice of implementation disciplines
  in each 100-day period
• Strengthens accountability for Results

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How it Works

• Create a temporary governance structure
• Team empowered to
• Break down long term goals into 100 day RESULTS
  commitments (RRI)
• Develop a work plan to realize the goal

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Management Methodology

• Start by focusing on a few Results
• Challenge teams to achieve 100-day Results
  goals
• Create temporary governance and support
  structure
• Manage the scale-up beyond the first 100 days

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The Rapid-Results Approach
Activities
Overall Objective
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Time
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Rapid Results Portfolio
Networking and membership
Monitoring and evaluation
Program Activities
Capacity Building
Communication and
Strategy and planning
Leverage Africa Community of Practice as an
authority in Mfdr in Africa
Dec 2010
Dec 2006
Dec 2008
OVERALL OBJECTIVE
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DEVELOPING THEMATIC AREAS

• Select thematic areas from the work plan plan
  that are
• Linked to achieving the current goals
• Priority areas for AfCoP
• Can be achieved using available budget and in
  100days

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Creating the Work Plan

• Developing a good work plan to achieve your goal
• Develop Milestones
• Must be a major accomplishment
• Stated in past tense
• Develop Action Steps i.e. specific steps to be
  taken
• Start with an action verb
• Spell out a concrete deliverable
• Include a deadline
• Be clearly assigned to one person (from the team)
• Test and Refine the work plan
• Are all relevant milestones included?
• Are the activities as detailed as possible?
• Is there ONE person assigned to over see each
  activity?

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RRI Work Plan