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Strategic Planning and Focus Groups through Technology
 

Although strategic plans may differ, there are common steps. TAGS technology can help make them better.
 
Many plans use the following processes:
  • brainstorming ideas (in surveys or meetings)
  • recording ideas
  • categorizing ideas
  • processing ideas (discussion, elimination, modification)
  • instituting ideas (action plans of who will do what by when)

Applying TAGS technology and FMCS facilitation best practices can improve every step for better results.

In TAGS meetings, time is used more efficiently, there is better understanding of the issues, and record-keeping is significantly improved. Processing ideas in TAGS can reduce work days to hours and work hours to minutes with an FMCS mediator/facilitator. You can sample some of these techniques by logging on to our Tour page