The commanding general of the Army Contracting Command stressed the importance of strategic planning and what he sees as the way ahead for the command during an Oct. 20, online, worldwide town hall meeting with the command's Soldiers and civilians.
"I put together a team that is starting to take a look at the mission and vision and then taking some additional strategic priorities and then being able to measure our ability to support those," said Maj. Gen. Ted Harrison. "This team is going to take that and develop a strategic plan that goes down into the objectives and metrics for each so we can track our progress."
Harrison said Col. Martin A. Zybura, ACC chief of staff, and Gene Duncan, ACC Strategic Initiatives, will lead the strategic planning effort.
"This is something Maj. Gen. Harrison really wanted us to do," Duncan said, "to take his statement of purpose, mission and strategic priorities he talked about at his last town hall meeting and expand those down into specific objectives that people can accomplish within the next one or two years. We are also tasked with looking at ways of measuring our progress toward meeting those objectives."
A week after the town hall, Duncan and six others sequestered themselves in a location away from the headquarters to start the process. The initial meeting was a three-day event that included members of the Expeditionary Contracting Command, the Mission and Installation Contracting Command and representatives from the ACC contracting centers
Duncan said things are moving along and knows this is just the beginning of something that will not have an end.
"Whatever is developed will be reviewed on a periodic basis by the command group and senior leaders. It's not something you just do once a year," he said. "It's a continual process where we will track our progress and make it very visible to people so that everyone will know how we're doing at meeting our objectives."
Duncan said the plan is to come up with objectives and identify the proper owner of action then turn the action over to them.
"We will assign the objective to an owner who will be responsible for tracking, implementing and overseeing those metrics," he said. "The objectives may flow down to the subordinate organizations and offices. Everyone will be able see what is going on and eventually each person will be able to see how their job is contributing to meeting the objectives and metrics and increase the effectiveness of the organization."
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