INTRODUCTION Herein lies the Long Range Plan (LRP) for the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) for the year 2005 as revised by the LRP committee. The revision committee held their first meeting at the 1996 National Convention where they outlined the LRP process and developed a draft mission statement. During the second meeting, held in Alexandria, Virginia, the committee researched past, present and potential future activities of NSBE and, as a result, developed and finalized the new and official NSBE mission and vision. The vision defines "where the organization is going and what it will be when it gets there." The mission defines the purpose of the organization and as such determines the society's priorities. The committee then moved forward and defined seven key business areas and derived objectives, goals, strategies and measures (OGSM) for each that will lead NSBE to realize it's mission and intimately experience it's vision. The key business areas include the following: 1. Academic Excellence 2. Technical Excellence 3. Leadership 4. Communications 5. Financial Vitality 6. Cultural & Community Awareness 7. Continuous Education & Career Access At the final LRP meeting, the committee developed critical subgroups to support each business area and then arduously developed, modified, and approved objectives, goals, strategies and measures (O.G.S.M) for each subgroup. For each objective exists at least 1 goal. Likewise, for each goal exists at least 1 corresponding strategy and for each strategy exists at least 1 corresponding measurement. Notice the goal places a numeric target of success on the objective and the measure provides the numeric target of success for each strategy. The results from this process generated the NSBE Long Range Plan for the year 2005. Even so, NSBE realizes this Long Range Plan (LRP) will only prove effective if all of us, every executive board and chapter member incorporates the LRP into our planning processes, which should ultimately drive all of our daily activities. Each member remains accountable to the success of the society; and as such, we must all take ownership of our organization and its mission and vision. The success of the Society, is now in our hands. We will now set the standard! Let us all step up to the challenge and bring NSBE to the greatest realm of success the world has ever known!!! S. Gordon Moore, Jr. National Chair-Emeritus ('97 - '98) National Chairman ('95 - '97) National Leadership Institute Planning Chairman ('99)
