Implementing a community-wide strategic plan : rock hill´s empowering the vision 10 years later
By: WHEELAND, Craig M
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ArticlePublisher: Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, March 2003Subject(s): Planejamento | Rock Hill | Governança | City ManagerThe American Political Science Review 33, 1, p. 46-69Abstract: Confronted by economic, social, and political change in 1980s, many cities decided to use community-wide strategic planning as a tool to address their problems. Rock Hill, South Carolina, successfully completed Empowering the Vision (ETV), a two year community-wide strategic planning process, in 1989 and began implementing the 10-year plan in 1990. Did the implementantion of ETV achieve its promise? Is it another example of a well-intentioned but later abandoned use of strategic planning? I argue that Rock Hill achieved five significant results by 2000: (a) managing uncertainty, (b) resolving conflict, (c) continuing citizen participation, (d) achieving tangible and intangible results, and (e) estabilishing a governance network for the duration of the planning period. Rock Hill achieved these results because of (a) the competent practice of community-wide strategic planning, (b) visionary leadership, and (c) the commitment of public leadership to the process and the plan.
Confronted by economic, social, and political change in 1980s, many cities decided to use community-wide strategic planning as a tool to address their problems. Rock Hill, South Carolina, successfully completed Empowering the Vision (ETV), a two year community-wide strategic planning process, in 1989 and began implementing the 10-year plan in 1990. Did the implementantion of ETV achieve its promise? Is it another example of a well-intentioned but later abandoned use of strategic planning? I argue that Rock Hill achieved five significant results by 2000: (a) managing uncertainty, (b) resolving conflict, (c) continuing citizen participation, (d) achieving tangible and intangible results, and (e) estabilishing a governance network for the duration of the planning period. Rock Hill achieved these results because of (a) the competent practice of community-wide strategic planning, (b) visionary leadership, and (c) the commitment of public leadership to the process and the plan.
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