90%+
Plan Progress Tracked
50%
Less Time Spent Reporting
30 Days
Time to Full Organization-Wide Adoption
Every organization running a serious strategic plan starts in more or less the same place: spreadsheets, shared drives, and one or two dedicated people keeping it all moving.
The Greater Omaha Chamber did that, and did it well, across one of the most ambitious plans in the region, 73 initiatives spanning economic development, workforce, advocacy, and investor engagement.
Together we moved the whole plan into one place, on one scale. In Year 1 more than 90% progress has been tracked, every initiative has an owner, and board reporting takes half the time it used to.
Here is how that came together, and what it really took, because the hard part was never the software.
ORGANIZATION:
Greater Chamber of Commerce
INDUSTRY:
Business & Economic Development
FOCUS AREA:
Strategic Plan Execution & Alignment
SYSTEM REPLACED:
Shared Drive and Spreadsheets
IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE:
Less than 60 days to full-team rollout
BUSINESS OUTCOME:
Reduced Reporting Burden and Team Wide Engagement
The Challenge
The real challenge: seeing the whole plan at once
A plan this size asks a lot of a team. The Chamber's work spans economic development, workforce, advocacy, and investor engagement, dozens of staff and dozens of initiatives all advancing at the same time. Keeping that current the manual way meant one person tracking down each initiative owner every cycle, gathering updates in whatever format they came in, and assembling it into a single scorecard by hand.
That is real, disciplined work, and it is exactly what most organizations do, because it is what the available tools allow. What no spreadsheet can give you, however capable the person behind it, is a live, shared view of the whole plan that every team measures the same way. That was the gap, and it is a genuinely hard one to close.
"One person was tracking down individual initiative owners across the organization, gathering data that lived in different systems and formats, and then manually compiling it all into a single report. Having information scattered like that made it much harder to track our progress." — Pete Thompson, SVP, Operations & Research, Greater Omaha Chamber
The Results
A clear view of the whole plan
One number, for the first time. Before, there was no single measure of how far along the plan was, not for any lack of effort, but because the plan simply lived in too many places to add up. In 2025, the Chamber tracked progress on more than 90% of all 73 initiatives, every one on the same scale across different measurement units.
Reporting time cut in half. What used to take several requests and weeks of manual assembly is now a few clicks and a live export. The team went from spending its time collecting the data to spending it discussing the data.
Board-ready by default. Leadership now walks into board meetings with a complete live rollup, not just the highlights someone chose to surface. As Pete put it after the first cycle, "the board could see the entire plan at a glance — a composite score showing overall progress up front, followed by a status update on every one of the 73 initiatives."
Accountability everyone can see. With owners and a shared cadence, staff know exactly what they own and how it ladders up to the plan. The discipline that used to live in one person's spreadsheet now lives in the way the whole organization works.
See VisionSync in Action
See it the way the Chamber does
This is the same live view the Chamber's leadership opens throughout the week: every initiative, every owner, and real-time progress on one scale. Take a two-minute self-guided tour, and see the Chamber's actual 2025 plan dashboard below.
Take the 2-minute tour
Pete Thompson
SVP, Operations & Research - Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce
Testimonials
FAQ
How many people at the Greater Omaha Chamber use VisionSync?
How long did the rollout take?
What results has the Chamber seen?
How does VisionSync fit the Chamber's strategic plan?
Who led the work at the Chamber?
