PNW Strategic Plan: Developing a Blueprint for Future Direction

1. PNW Strategic Plan: Developing a Blueprint for Future Direction Research for Resources

2. Listening • Client Workshops • Employee Sessions • Partner Dialogues

3. Communicating • Field visits • Publications • Workshops • Internet

4. Stewardship Scholarship Responsiveness Respect Quality Productivity Leadership Integrity Diversity Creativity Communication Collaboration Accountability Service Our Core Values

5. Draft Vision and Mission • VISION: We are highly sought for our scientific leadership and impartial knowledge. • MISSION:Our Mission is to generate and communicate scientific knowledge that helps people understand and make informed choices about natural resources and the environment.

6. Mission Basis • Understanding system components and their interactions • Holistic and integrative • Over a continuum of temporal & spatial scales • Sustainability of ecological, economic and social values • Examines processes and responses over long time frames

7. Draft Goals • Understanding ecological, social, and economic systems and their interactions • Assessing Status and Trends of Natural Resource Systems and their Management • Developing and communicating tools, options and linkages to enhance integrated management and policy at multiple scales

8. Draft Priorities – Understanding • Advancing the understanding of structure, function, and processes of ecological systems. • Improving the understanding of social and economic processes and their interaction with natural resource values and uses.

9. Draft Priorities – Assessing • Conducting inventories of forest resources. • Analyzing and assessing resource trends and available knowledge.

10. Draft Priorities – Developing • Managing riparian and aquatic environments for multiple values & uses. • Restoring and maintaining forests and their productivity. • Developing monitoring protocols and data analysis techniques.

11. Draft Priorities – Developing • Creating opportunities for recreation and tourism for diverse populations. • Producing wood within the framework of sustainability.

12. Draft Priorities – Developing • Developing conservation strategies for biodiversity including TE&S. • Bringing science to managers and policy-makers.

13. Draft Operational Guidelines • Maintain an environment that fosters scientific freedom, rigor, creativity, flexibility, support, and innovation while treating each other with dignity and respect. • Expect everyone to be accountable for making appropriate contributions to achieving agreed upon objectives.

14. Draft Operational Guidelines • Develop a strong culture of collaboration with clients, partners, scientists, and science managers throughout the research and development process that takes into account our long-term capability, strengths and comparative advantages. • Continually improve the timeliness and quality of products and services.

15. Draft Operational Guidelines • Create a diverse and well-qualified workforce that is representative of the larger national workforce, in gender, ethnic background, and physical abilities. • Be proactive in communicating and disseminating our scientific information.

16. Draft Operational Guidelines • Develop a flexible and resilient organization built around formal and informal teams and programs that can respond to client needs and changes in priorities. • Provide efficient and effective research and administrative processes.

17. Draft Operational Guidelines • Develop an environment that rewards quality work and provides professional development and growth opportunities for employees. • Be productive members of and make creative contributions to the scientific community.

18. Strategic Plan DevelopmentConsult and ReviseFinalize Spring 2001