ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the perspective and identifies what police executives should do to set this new direction to develop their department's strategic renewal, transformation, and effectiveness. It explains the activities associated with setting organizational strategic direction. The chapter explains the difference between a reactive and proactive police organization. It describes how to create an organizational strategy. The chapter explores the steps required to implement an organizational strategy. It focuses on the issues relating to measuring the effectiveness of a strategy. Effectiveness is a shared core cultural value in the strategic organization because employees believe in and know what is expected of them and what they should do to be effective. The strategic organization is organized and structured to employ its personnel and assets to a maximum affect. Implementing a department's strategic direction should be based upon a logical set of connected activities. Setting and implementing a new organizational strategic direction is an action-oriented activity.
