Like your public power peers, you must map out your utility’s future through a rocky terrain. But you don’t have much time or the budget to commit to an elaborate endeavor. That’s why Hometown Connections has perfected a simple technique for evaluating your operations and determining your priorities and goals for the next five years. Our facilitators will lead your team through a process to assist you in solidifying a clear and unified future direction for your utility.

The Hometown Connections Proven Technique for Strategic Planning

Hometown Connections, Inc. is the non-profit organization empowering community-owned utilities to maximize their potential. The Hometown staff has facilitated strategic planning initiatives for hundreds of public utilities. Rather than result in a thick document that collects dust on a shelf, Hometown enables each utility to create a practical and goal-oriented plan for the road ahead.

The Hometown Connections strategic planning process includes:

• Engaging your governing board and other stakeholders
• Defining your utility’s vision, mission, and core values
• Determining your utility’s strengths, limitations, opportunities & threats
• Focusing on what your customers/target markets think and want
• Identifying and prioritizing issues your utility must address within the next five years
• Defining outcomes and actions for implementing your strategic plan

Hometown Connections Strategic Planning Process

Hometown’s recent strategic planning clients include:

• Provo Power
• Bryan Texas Utilities
• ALP Utilities, MN
• Groton Utilities, CT
• Kansas Municipal Utilities
• City of Hillsboro, KS
• Fayetteville Public Works Commission, NC
• Delaware Municipal Electric Corporation
• Connecticut Municipal Electric Energy Cooperative
• Kentucky Municipal Energy Agency
• Missouri Public Utility Alliance
• SAGE Development Authority

For more Information on how the Hometown Connections team can help you create a strategic plan that works, send an email to info@hometownconnections.com.