STRATEGIC
PLANNING VS.
LONG'RANGE
PLANNING
- SP relies
more on identifying and
resolving issues, while
LRP focuses on specifying
goals and objectives
and
translating them
into budgets and
work programs.
- SP emphasizes
assessment of the
environment, where
LRP
assumes the current
trends will continue
into the future.
- SP planners
are more likely to pursue
an idea!ized vision
of the future and ask how best to achieve
this "vision",
where LRP planners
typically make linear
extrapolations
of the present.
- SP is more
action-oriented.
SP considers a
range of possible
futures
and works to
keep options open,
where LRP
assumes
a most
likely" scenario
and then works
backward to
map out
the sequence
of decisions and
actions necessary
to achieve
this
plan.