1. Principles of Planning Hot Topics in Preparedness Northwest Center for Public Health Practice School of Public Health & Community Medicine University of Washington July 27, 2004 William W. Dyal Director, Population Based Services DeKalb County Board of Health

2. Why Plan? Planning – The process for constructing an organized response to a problem or series of related problems.

3. Planning – The application of rational decision making to the commitment of future resources.

4. Good planning eliminates the risk of failure. True or False?

5. False. Planning does not eliminate risk. Its purpose is to make the most efficient use of resources. The value of planning should not be judged by the accuracy of its predictions but by whether it helps optimize results in a changing environment.

6. Rational Decision Making Requires only that the manager ask four questions and that his/her actions be in agreement with the answers.

7. A. Who am I? B. What am I? C. Where am I? D. Who cares? E. None of the above? The first of these four questions is: Rational Decision Making

8. 1.Where am I? (The starting point) 2.Where do I want to be? (The ending point) 3.How do I get there? (The plan of action) 4.How do I know I’m getting there? (Milestones)

9. Where Am I? 1.The Problem (our current capacity to dispense) 2.Available Resources (ours and others) 3.The State of the Art (the current level of technology)

10. Where Do I Want To Be? Outcome Objective – A quantitative measurement of the problem at some future date. A statement of what our capacity to dispense will be by some specific future point in time.

11. How Do I Get There? Intervention Strategy – basis for predicting the expenditure of resources on specified activities and objectives will lead to the anticipated outcome. In its simplest form, an “if-then” logic model or theory.

12. Activities and Process Objectives Activities – a series of work statements that describe how program resources will be used Process Objectives – milestones to be achieved en route to the achievement of the anticipated outcome

13. How Do I know I’m Getting There? Measurement Comparison

14. Measurement and Comparison of what? A. Measurement of the intended for comparison to the ideal? B. Measurement of the actual for comparison to the intended? C. Measurement of the actual for comparison to the ideal? D. None of the Above?

15. How Do I know I’m Getting There? Measurement Comparison Evaluation – Measurement of the actual for comparison to the intended (activities, process objectives, & outcome objectives)

16. Success!