The City's Business Plan is one of the key tools within the corporate performance management framework established by the City's Strategic Plan – Cambridge Connected. The strategic plan envisions the direction and goals of the City, and establishes guidelines and actions to achieve those goals. The business plan is intended to help the City reach our strategic actions, maintain and improve the City’s core services, and ensure resources are appropriately allocated to the City’s priorities.

The objective of the City’s business planning process is to be relevant, timely, forward looking and integrated into other corporate planning and reporting cycles. The business planning cycle is aligned with the City’s budget process, to ensure financial and staff resources are allocated so that the annual work plan initiatives can be accomplished successfully.