A Survival Kit for 21st Century Planning

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A Survival Kit for 21st Century Planning

• FPD Workshop Presentation
• Thursday, April 20, 2006

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Presenters

• Stanley W. Mael, AICP
• Director of Planning and Information Technology,
  HBA
• V. Paul Baerman
• Senior Planner, HBA
• Deborah K. Tharp
• Command Planner, AETC

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Session Abstract

• Sustainable Planning is more than
  environmentalism
• Planning is a process
• The process must also be sustainable
• Sustainable plans must
• Meet current and future mission requirements
• Provide an integrated, coherent, and methodic
  approach to the plans own longevity
• Therefore, this session will
• Define and explore a proactive, sustainable
  planning process
• Demonstrate a variety of planning tools that can
  be easily applied for that purpose (The Survival
  Kit)
• Provide real world planning examples where
  sustainability has either been at the forefront
  or taken a back seat

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Definitions

• Sustainability
• The needs of the present are met without
  compromising the ability of future generations to
  meet their own needs (various sources)
• Planning
• The ongoing, iterative, participatory process
  addressing the full range of issues effecting or
  affected by an installation's development (AFI
  32-7062)
• Planner
• The purveyor of and proponent for reasonable,
  realistic, and relevant facility development
  alternatives that satisfy the short- and
  long-term vision of the installations leadership
• Sustainable Planning
• A process of data collection, storage, and
  presentation that provides decision makers with
  sound development options while not compromising
  the planners ability to provide those options
  over time

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Importance Parameters

• Planning is an endangered species
• There is more to planning than filling a square
  or satisfying a requirement

• Planning is an endangered species

• Planning is an endangered species
• There is more to planning than filling a square
  or satisfying a requirement
• Peoples lives and well being are at stake

• Planning is an endangered species
• There is more to planning than filling a square
  or satisfying a requirement
• Peoples lives and well being are at stake
• A sustainable planning process, accompanied by
  the proper tools, accelerates decision-making
  resulting in timelier and better informed
  development decisions

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Sustainable Planning Process

• Focus on the mission
• Process, not product, oriented
• Keep it simple, reliable, and efficient
• Responsive to frequently asked questions
• Capitalize on existing strengths
• Leverage future technologies
• Inform, educate, analyze, present

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Focus on the Mission

• Understand your installation and your audience

• Understand your installation and your audience
• Establish consensus-based SMART goals
• Specific
• Measurable
• Attainable
• Realistic
• Time-bound

Mission focus shedding light on whats important
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Process Oriented

• Understand data collection, presentation, and
  approval procedures

• Understand data collection, presentation, and
  approval procedures
• Provide information, not products

Process orientation getting where you need to go
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Simple, Reliable and Efficient

• Make planning concepts clear separating hard
  facts from initial impressions

• Make planning concepts clear separating hard
  facts from initial impressions
• Have a planning disaster recovery plan

KISS or get out the First Aid Kit
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Responsive

• Dont despise the day of small beginnings

• Dont despise the day of small beginnings
• Establish solid communication links across the
  installation

Responsive quick to ignite
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Capitalize on Existing Strengths

• Only maintain data not maintained by others

• Only maintain data not maintained by others
• Understand and use the complementary strengths of
  others

Strength comes from proper nutrition
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Leverage the Future

• Learn to use technology, rather than technology
  using you

• Learn to use technology, rather than technology
  using you
• Do not let technology drive the train

Leverage the future, dont just survive the future
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Leverage the Future

• Adapts to the Portal concept
• Maintains Distributed Ownership
• Allows Remote Maintenance
• Fielded with COTS

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Four Pillars

• Information
• Education
• Analysis
• Presentation

Multipurpose tasks need a multipurpose tool
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A Survival Kit for 21st Century Planning
Questions/Comments Thank You!

• FPD Workshop Presentation
• Thursday, April 20, 2006