IOF sent out
IOF Strategic Directions 2012-2018 and
explanatory notes.
I am opening this thread because operational strength of IOF is one of the weakest points AFAIR. With so high goals we need to be realistic about what IOF Council and commissions officials (volunteers) are able and willing to do. I think that IOF administration should have bigger role here.
GENERAL
It is one step further and I like the transparency of the document and how key goals and strategic initiatives should be set up. In general I agree with the need to produce these documents, although we should agree also what kind of additional documents (data, analysis, indicators, activity plan and reports) should be produced along the way. We need also to go in details if we want to make a circle (strategy-planning-implementation-follow up) at the end of the period.
Implementation list of general activities and indicators (2012-2018) of success for the proposed KEY GOALS and STRATEGIC INITIATIVES should be also presented otherwise nobody would know how to evaluate what we will really achieve at the end of the period. With intermediate reports prepared by IOF we should get information what is going on in more details which will be good information how to correct activity plan for next 2 years. I don't think that this is federation’s task to comment or should do that.
As I understand the process is that we need first to confirm Strategic Directions and then we will talk about how to reach these goals. >> With strategic initiatives we already set a goal so we could also look what these goals are and decide what would be a success and what a failure!
PROPOSALS
1. One of my thoughts was that today VISION drive us only to the subordinate KEY goal and nothing more. Will we get new VISION when we would be one day (maybe) accepted into Olympic family? I think that VISION should be more than that and should be one for all times. In my opinion and knowledge Vision is something that you wanna be and not something that you want to achieve/become! It is not about the process it is about how we see orienteering.
It is a though one to work with the words but I will try.
The vision of the IOF is that orienteering is Olympic sport and it is practiced by all age categories in all countries around the world.
Do you want to add/change/suggest/miss any other proposals?