I am pleased to support the Chief of Defence Force in launching the New Zealand Defence Force Strategic Plan 2007-2011.
This Strategic Plan has its genesis in the Government-initiated Defence Capability and Resourcing Review (DCARR) and the subsequent Defence Sustainability Initiative (DSI). The DSI was accompanied by a 10-year $4.6 billion funding package in 2005/06. That funding package was designed to enable the NZDF to develop military and organisational capability to a level that will ensure the Government’s defence policy objectives can be met on a sustainable basis.
It is essential that the NZDF has the correct management and evaluative tools to enable effective resource management and decision-making into the future. The requirement to be able to continually review and prioritise projects, programmes and scarce resources within the NZDF is vital. The NZDF Strategic Plan as part of the wider architecture of the Defence Planning Framework (DPF), together with the tools that underpin it, sets the NZDF in the right direction to efficiently manage its resources. The introduction of the NZDF Balanced Scorecard as part of the NZDF strategic planning process, together with enhanced performance management processes, will enable the NZDF to track the implementation of its strategy.
The NZDF Strategic Plan provides guidance for all subordinate strategic planning in the NZDF. This will align and focus the efforts of all elements of the NZDF and support the NZDF Vision. I look forward to the results that this Strategic Plan will bring.
Hon Phil Goff
Minister of Defence
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