Communications Guide - Fran O'hara

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Operational Plan
Financial Plan
Work programme
Project
Core work
Developmental work
Monitoring
Measuring / Metrics
A detailed plan containing practical activities/
steps to achieve strategic outcomes. Usually
delivered over 3 -5 years with detailed plan
for Y1 with Y2, Y3 etc developed as part of
strategic planning process.
Operational plan expressed in financial
terms i.e. estimates of what activities will
cost to deliver. Includes staff costs, revenue
estimates, balance sheet.
The main subject that we are focussing on.
We will be working on projects under each
work programme.
A defined piece of work that has been
agreed that we will do under a work
programme. A project needs to be approved
by the Senior Management Team and have
a project mandate and, if large enough, a
Project Initiation Plan
Day to day work that is not part of a work
stream e.g. dealing with calls from the media
or responding to individual enquiries.
Time limited work that is not part of a
specific work programme, for instance
developing the Business Management
System (BMS) or intranet (Sharepoint).
An activity that reviews the output/outcome
of an activity or establishes degree of
progress made. Enables adjustment at
critical stages and may flag issues/barriers
early on. May include measures of progress
against agreed critical success factors
and KPIs.
Gathering, processing and visualizing
information to provide measures of
performance of activities/projects.
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