Strategic Plan

NAILBA's strategic long-range plan describes a desired vision and what will be essential to achieving that vision. It is grounded in core ideology and driven by an envisioned future that realizes the full potential of NAILBA's ability to support its members and the industry.

NAILBA's commitments are articulated in goals that declare the outcomes or attributes the Association intends to achieve. Objectives represent key metrics affecting NAILBA's ability to achieve the goal and articulate the direction in which these issues must be moved. Strategies will describe how NAILBA plans to commit its limited resources to make its vision a reality.

In the future, NAILBA will not be able to be all things to all people, but it must be different things to different people as the plan evolves to meet the needs of a constantly changing industry. Therefore, underlying this plan is the adoption of an ongoing process of planning and thinking strategically, designed to ensure relevance of direction and action over time.

NAILBA's strategic long-range plan represents a compass the Association will use to guide its work over the next five years. Each year of its life, the plan will be updated based on experience or new circumstances or as new opportunities or challenges emerge. In 2006, NAILBA should author a new strategic long-range plan based upon the new environment expected to exist in a rapidly evolving world.

3-to-5 Year Planning Horizon Outcome-Oriented Goals

Goal # 1---Technology Leadership Members, carriers and vendors will look to NAILBA to provide technological leadership, input and impact on legislative and regulatory issues.

Goal # 2---Legislative Influence Industry professionals will look to NAILBA as a primary resource for information, input and impact on legislative and regulatory issues.

Goal # 3---Education Opportunities NAILBA will bring the education of agency members and staff to a higher level.

Goal # 4---Networking/Community NAILBA's community will be expanded to include additional opportunities to interact with a broader base affecting the independent brokerage community.

Goal # 5---Information/Knowledge/Communication Members, carriers and vendors will have readily-accessible knowledge and information, and will see NAILBA as the information resource center for the brokerage industry.

Goal # 6---Industry Leadership NAILBA will be recognized by companies, vendors, legislators and regulators, agents and the public as the voice representing the interests of the Independent Distribution System.