Forestry and Land Scotland - draft corporate strategic plan 2026-2030: consultation

7. One FLS, Fit for the Future

To achieve our ambitions, we need to be a thriving, high-performing organisation. We have launched a programme entitled ‘One FLS, Fit for the Future’ to put us on the right path. This is our organisation-wide commitment in which all staff have a part to play – no matter what their role – in helping us become financially sustainable, more efficient, resilient, and ready for the future.

This initiative brings together all our efforts to improve how we work, manage resources, and deliver value. The portfolio of changes project includes:

Reinforcing the foundations of our business, through a series of enablers –

This includes for example:

• Improvements to leadership and managing change
• Better planning for priorities
• Workforce planning
• Driving delivery through performance management and reporting
• Better information systems
• Investing in the skills of our people
• Actively managing our fleet and built assets.

Undertaking a portfolio of specific projects which focus on areas where we can make the biggest impact, such as in improving systems, changing how we deliver services, or finding new ways to generate income. Projects include:

• Continuing to transition Newton Nursery to business as usual;
• Achieving more cost effective, rapid and right first time re-establishment of the forest through a ‘cost effective forest management’ project;
• Delivering more cost-effective access for timber harvesting by transforming our civil engineering;
• Creating deliverable plans and programmes through our ‘operational planning’ project;
• Maximising the value of our timber harvesting and marketing;
• Exploring a new generation of digital systems across core forestry operations
• Improving our supplier and contract performance
• Reviewing our network of paths, trails and promoted sites to ensure the right provision in the right place, including considering the potential for 3rd party delivery for selected visitor destinations.

Promoting continuous improvement – commending and reinforcing ongoing improvement through the myriad incremental improvements that FLS colleagues are making to run the business better every day.

This work is helping us to be better and more commercially astute in all that we do. It is helping us to deliver our multiple objectives without muddling them up. It is vital if we are to become financially sustainable well before the end of this Corporate Strategic Plan period.