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NACE NEWS NACE NEWS 64 MARCH 2017 MATERIALS PERFORMANCE NACE INTERNATIONAL: VOL. 56, NO. 3 Strategic Planning at NACE International By NACE President Samir Degan and Past President Sandy Williamson N ACE International has used long-term planning processes for many years to help establish a course of direction for the associ- ation. We have implemented these plans with varying degrees of success and have learned that strategic planning comes in many flavors. Over the past several years the Board of Directors has worked to refine and adopt a singular process tailored to meet our needs. The process is designed to help us create a clear understanding of where we want to go (our Destination or Future State), and to develop a stepwise plan for how we get there from where we are today. We want to introduce that process in this issue of MP. More importantly, each month we plan to present key outcomes of our process, and explain in greater detail the strategic plan for our association. Let's start with a definition of strategic planning so that we all have a common understanding of just what it is we'll be talking about. Strategic planning is a process that provides a roadmap for taking our asso- ciation from a well-defined Present State, to a compelling and significantly different Future State. First and foremost, strategic planning is an ongoing process—not an event. We must work on our plans continuously. During the process, board members who represent every facet of our operations listen to, debate, and analyze data and information until we reach a common understanding of the Present State health of the association. With this knowledge in hand, the board created a verbal picture of a compelling Future State. While the quality of the plan itself is important, successful execution of the plan is even more critical. Our Plan for Success process creates the roadmap that we will follow to move us toward our Overarching Goals. It includes our key strategic initia- tives for the next year, a planning tool to identity and focus on the most important short-term tasks, and a review process that helps establish accountability, monitor progress, and make course corrections as necessary. As mentioned earlier, there are many models for strategic planning. This is the model that the board has refined and adopted over the past several years. It meets our purposes well, and is flexible enough to be adopted, as desired, to meet the needs of each affiliate, activities com- mittee, and area of the association. Over the next few months we will: 8 Present our statement of Core Purpose, establishing why we exist in the marketplace and our noble cause 8 Introduce our Cultural Beliefs and Core Values that define how we expect each other to behave 8 Confirm our mssion that describes to the world just what it is we do 8 Explore our aspirational Vision of what we want to become NACE OFFICERS P R E S I D E N T Sandy Williamson* Retired Calgary, AB, Canada V I C E P R E S I D E N T Samir Degan* Osnar Paints and Contracts Pvt. Mumbai, India T R E A S U R E R Terry Greenfield* CorroMetrics Services, Inc. Mobile, AL, USA P A S T P R E S I D E N T Jim Feather* Retired—ExxonMobil Research Fairfax, VA, USA C H I E F E X E C U T I V E O F F I C E R Robert H. Chalker* NACE International Houston, TX, USA D I R E C T O R S Bruce Cookingham/2014-2017 BP Houston, TX, USA Peter Harkins/2014-2017 Tinker & Rasor Co. San Bernardino, CA, USA Michelle Lau/2014-2017 Mach3 Engineering Selangor, Malaysia Debra Boisvert/2015-2018 Target Products, Ltd. Burnaby, BC, Canada Richard B. Eckert/2015-2018 DNV GL Dublin, OH, USA Darby Howard/2015-2018 JDH Corrosion Consultants, Inc. Concord, CA, USA Thomas Ladwein/2015-2018 Aalen University of Applied Science Aalen, Germany Mohammed Al-Subaie/2016-2019 Saudi Aramco Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Jorge Cantó/2016-2019 Corrosion y Proteccion Hidalgo, Mexico Cris Conner/2016-2019 Utility Service & Maintenance, Inc. St. Louis, MO, USA Andrew Haiko/2016-2019 LTK Engineering Services Ambler, PA, USA Eric Langelund/2016-2019 Piping & Corrosion Specialties, Inc. Millersville, MD, USA E X O F F I C I O D I R E C T O R S Keith Perkins President, NACE International Foundation Chris Fowler, FNACE President, NACE International Institute *Executive Committee members Figure 1 - The model adopted by the Board of Directors to facilitate strategic planning at NACE.