Implementation Plan
For each project, Market Street tells our clients that
when the strategy process is complete, the real work begins. Timely
and effective implementation is critical to the ultimate success
of the Gwinnett County Community and Economic Development Strategy.
Market Street will assist Gwinnett in selecting strategic
options, prioritizing implementation actions, assigning roles and
responsibilities of key participants, developing a realistic timeframe
for implementation, and reviewing funding priorities and potential
funding sources.
Based on the components of the Community and Economic Development
Strategy, an Implementation Plan will be developed with the following
components:
I. Designation of Lead Community Organizations
- Each goal will be analyzed considering the community and organizational
capacity in Gwinnett County. This analysis is necessary to determine
exactly who will be responsible for acting on, and implementing
these goals, and monitoring strategic progress.
- Market Street will help facilitate the determination
of the appropriate lead community organization to be charged with
managing the overarching implementation process and ongoing evaluation
efforts for each goal.
II. Program Assessments and Enhancements
- Once the Community and Economic Development Strategy is final
and the lead implementation organizations have been determined,
a review of the existing programmatic capacity in Gwinnett County
must occur. Market Street, with the guidance of the Gwinnett
County Chamber and the Steering Committee, will list “resources”
in each goal area in order to complete an implementation capacity
assessment for the Strategy. The Steering Committee will play
a critical role in reviewing current assets and gaps in capacity,
and in helping to identify potentially new or enhanced resources
to be utilized.
- Once an assessment is complete and gaps are identified, Market
Street will assist Gwinnett County in determining how best
to mitigate resource or expertise shortfalls in order to bridge
any deficiencies relative to implementation.
III. Funding Allocation
- Market Street will work with the Steering Committee
to determine the level of additional funding that will be needed
to carry out the strategy.
IV. Timetable
- The Steering Committee and Market Street will jointly
develop a timetable for the Implementation Plan. The timetable
will focus on short, medium, and long-term actions to best implement
the Strategy’s goals and objectives. A Year One Action Plan
will be developed to guide implementation during the critical
first year of strategic activity.
- The timetable must be updated over time to address changing
realities, and Market Street will recommend a process
for revisiting the Strategy goals on an ongoing basis.
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