DISCIPLINE CASE STUDY:
COMMUNITY PLANNERS

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Disciplinary Challenge

Around the world there is an increase of understanding in the value of involving the whole community in the planning, development, and management of our communities.  These transparent processes that involve the whole community result in safer, stronger, wealthier, and more sustainable environments.  Existing and new networks are coming together to take collective action and generate solutions to common problems.  Today, more than ever, planning professionals have the opportunity to meaningfully engage residents and community stakeholders to build consensus and agreement on important community issues.

Odysseus Solutions

Odysseus Offers a Programmatic Solution for Community Planners.

Odysseus™ | kms

The Odysseus™|KMS provides community planners with a central repository where community development plans and compliance reports can be accessed and shared by staff, partners, and community residents.  The secure yet flexible virtual collaborative environment allows for the efficient development, maintenance, and update of planning doctrine.
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ODYSSEUS™ | CPM

The Odysseus™|Compliance Metric Tools are a data-driven, assessment that allows community planners the ability to systematically evaluate the compliance to various governmental and industry recognized programs. 

ODYSSEUS™ | AAT

The Odysseus™ | AAT offers community planners the ability to develop customized assessment tools that can be used to evaluate, assess, and understand community development trends.

ODYSSEUS™ | cbt

​The Odysseus™|CBT allows for the delivery and tracking of learning across the Odysseus™ enterprise. Your programs, courses, and exercises can be harmonized with your community development plans, education and outreach, and other program efforts.

Featured Best Practices

• Community Planning
• Education and Outreach
• Stakeholder Management
• Compliance Metrics
• Participation

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Community Planning

The Odysseus™ | KMS gives community developers and planners an online tool dedicated to the development and maintenance of plans and reporting requirements.  Odysseus™|KMS offers developers and planners the unique feature of providing standardization and flexibility in a collaborative environment.  This union greatly increases your organization's ability to manage and coordinate the community planning and development process.  

Community Education and Outreach

The Odysseus™|CBT plug-in provides organizations with an integrated learning management system that allows community developers and planners to more effectively engaging community partners and residents by delivering and measuring the understanding of important community issues.  Odysseus™|CBT provides a platform to deliver and manage customized computer-based training, track course assessments, award certificates upon course completion, and in-depth reporting. 

Community Stakeholder Management

In today’s environment of fiscal efficiency, limited availability of resources, and the necessity to balance competing demands, it is imperative that the engagement of assigned work groups and key stakeholders is efficient and effective. The stakeholder management tool within the Odysseus™|KMS will assist in documenting the planning process, provide a method of on-going committee collaboration, offer an archival repository of planning meeting minutes and information, and ensure the active participation of committee members and key stakeholders throughout the life-cycle of the planning process.

Compliance Assessments

Designed from the Odysseus™|AAT architecture, the Odysseus platform offers a customized community development and compliance assessments tools that is consistent with local, state, and federal regulatory requirements.  Community developers and planners can assess their compliance and integrate the results into their existing reporting and planning framework.

Community Participation and Awareness

The Odysseus™ enterprise offers a variety of tools that can be used to efficiently engage residents and community partners, and solicit their participation in the community planning and development process. Customized Odysseus™|CBT interactive planning participation module allows committee members, stakeholders, and the public to learn about current programs and provide real-time feedback and input in community matters. Customized Odysseus™|AAT survey instruments allows community partners and stakeholders to provide input in the planning process and inform your community development efforts.