Dubai Municipality

The Dubai Municipality won the prestigious Richard Goodman Strategic Planning Award for 2008.

The criteria for winning are rigorous and challenging. The winner must:

1. Describe a process in use that is at the leading edge of the field or an actual pioneer in approaching a strategic planning process in a totally new and unique way
2. Or... be a very creative extension of a tried and true process
3. The process must be shown to directly help improve the performance of the organization
4. There must be a definitive way in which the strategic plan and strategy are implemented and a method of interim assessment

In the case of the Dubai Municipality, which wins in the government category for 2007-8, strategic planning especially satisfied the second criteria of extending tried and true processes or blending a variety of methodologies to achieve results. The municipality tied their strategic plan back to their Mission, Vision and Values. ASP especially recognizes that the Dubai Municipality's use of technology to assess their shareholder's evaluation of the strategic execution. On a continuous basis the municipality receives automated rankings of its performance that it can then use to improve the process.

Congratulations to this year's winners on a job well done.