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Article: Strategic Planning in the Finance Department: The Experience of Raleigh, North Carolina.
- Article from:
- Government Finance Review
- Article date:
- August 1, 2000
- Author:
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Although most governments develop their goals through formal documents like multi-year capital improvement plans, comprehensive plans, and task-force reports, the planning activities of their finance departments often are much less organized. At the same time, many finance departments face unprecedented changes in their departmental services, including the management of complex new financial systems, growing expectations for 24-hour information access, and desires for rapid transaction processing between systems and over the Internet.
Reacting to these ever-increasing challenges, the City of Raleigh, North Carolina, finance department sought in 1999 to initiate a ...