Strategic Planning for Implementing

For the Implementing Sustainable Practice paper I am taking, we were given a resource called Strategic Planning with Appreciative Inquiry: Unleashing the Positive Potential to SOAR.  It was prepared by Innovation Partners International to describe an appreciative strategic planning technique SOAR (strengths, opportunities, aspirations and results) as an alternative to the traditional strategic planning technique SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats).

SOAR is based on a "5-D process", referring to:

1. Definition (decide who to invite and how)

2. Discovery (inquiry into Strengths and Opportunities)

3. Dream (identify Aspirations and Results) 

4. Design (decide which opportunities have the most potential)

5. Destiny (delivery; implement and measure success)

More details on each step are in the linked document, when you read it you see that this is very similar to the Natural Step 5 level framework (but tailored to include the fine strategic detail for getting things done).
It's definitely something worth referring to for managing projects.