Operational Plan

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Operational planning should be seen as a subsection to the strategic planning. While strategic planning provides a guide to in what direction a organisations should move in the medium and long term, the operational plan examine how to put the strategic plan into operation in given operational period.

An operational plan will often be built as tool to budget planning and a five year strategic plan will often require 5 operational plans as the budget will be developed every year.

The operational plan will, therefore, in practise break the strategic plan into several parts deciding what activities should be planned to achieve the goals set out and more important what activities should happen when.    
 

Related Links:
Operational Planning
NCVO - Guide to operational planning and why organisations should bother engaging in operational planning.
SMART objectives
What SMART objectives are and why they should be used in the operational planning.
Stategic Vs. Operational Planning
Explaining the differences between stategic and operational planning and why both are important.
SCVO
Example: The operational plan from the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations.