The strategic planning of educational institutions has been researched empirically, although the complexity of these organizations constitute of a privileged object of research of the processes of formulating strategic plans. This study took place at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of the State of Acre in the Brazilian Amazon, to answer: How the Institutional Development Plan (IDP) can contribute to the effectiveness in the fulfillment of institutional responsibilities? The overall objective is to demonstrate the contribution that the Institutional Development Plan can bring to an educational institution, in order to contribute to the success and minimize the risk of failure. As a result, it proves that it is possible to leverage the institutional development, through scientific innovation made on community consensus, supported in strategic planning, through systematic control (1); The scientific innovation in consensus with the democratic participation of society as tools to support the strategic planning does not represent efficient method to leverage institutional development, and their applicability becomes inadequate and difficult (2). The plan is an articulator mechanism of public policies, allowing seeing the commitment of internal and external stakeholders around the Strategic Planning (3). This task may be useful in developing plans for innovation and modernization of decision-making processes in a public institution of education.