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Strategic Planning
Strategic planning is the process of identifying where you want to go, your values, factors that will affect your success, and how to get where you are going, within a long time frame. Learn how to do it properly here.
From Strategic Planning to Strategic Thinking
By James Morrison:
Henry Mintzberg (1994), in an article appearing in the latest issue of the Harvard Business Review titled "The Fall and Rise of Strategic Planning," states that the label strategic planning should be dropped because strategic planning has impeded strategic thinking. This article reviews Mintzberg's position on strategic planning
What is strategic planning?
By Internet Non-Profit Center:
Strategic planning is a management tool, period. As with any management tool, it is used for one purpose only: to help an organization do a better job - to focus its energy, to ensure that members of the organization are working toward the same goals, to assess and adjust the organization's direction in response to a changing environment.
Answers - Our Dead Strategic Plan
By Robert Bacal:
A question and some answers about why strategic plans ended up covered in dust in the back of the drawer.
Strategic Planning - Stop Wasting Your Time
By Robert Bacal:
Pick up any management book and you'll see coverage of the importance of developing a strategic plan, and instructions on how to go about the process. You'll also find literature that suggests that strategic planning is doomed to fail, because long term planning is "impossible" in a rapidly changing business world built on shifting sands. The truth lies somewhere in between, whether for a small business, micro business (one or a very few people), or large corporations.
Value Driven Vision
By Christina Drouin:
Examines the process of creating a vision statement within the school context. Explains the ffndamental distinction between mission and vision and the purpose of values.
Creating a Vision
By No Author Indicated:
When you begin the process of strategic planning, visioning comes first. When visioning the change, ask yourself, "What is our preferred future?"
Pave The Way To a Successful Strategic Plan (Free planning advice)
By Julane Borth:
If you've determined that you are indeed ready to begin a strategic planning process there are several steps to pave the way and ensure the plan gets executed.
Mission Statement
By Business Resource Software Inc.:
The mission statement should be a clear and succinct representation of the enterprise's purpose for existence. It should incorporate socially meaningful and measurable criteria addressing concepts such as the moral/ethical position of the enterprise, public image, the target market, products/services, the geographic domain and expectations of growth and profitability.
What Is A Mission Statement
By Charles and Sue DeFiore:
In order to do your mission statement you need to be able to answer the following:
Why should this business exist?
Who will be its customers and how will it benefit them?
Why will they be better off?
Strategic Planning - Goal Setting - Are you Still on Track
By Robin Throckmorton:
whether it is a strategic plan or your own personal goals, most goals are established to help you get from where you are today to where you want to ultimately be. The goals are the actual steps you'll take to reach that ultimate future. To set your goals, you need to find out where you are now, where you want to be, and how you are going to get there. And, constantly re-evaluate and revise as needed. Contains ten reasons why we get lost
Vision and Strategic Plan: Who needs them?, by Jeff Hiatt, ProSci
By Jeff Hiatt:
Is a vision and strategic plan something you should worry about? Or is this something only for an executive team or the top leaders of your organization? You can answer these questions yourself
Why Consultants Drive The Getaway Cars To Business Failures
By Evan Dudik:
The business of consulting to business is booming. Andersen Consulting is pulling in $9 billion a year; KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers are each a measly billion or two behind. McKinsey is closing in on $3 billion. While a good portion of those fees is for information technology consulting, a lot of it is for good old strategic planning advice... AKA snake oil
Organizing a Corporate Retreat
By Wayne Parker:
Retreats are effective tools for organizations needing to plan strategically and to build teamwork. Let's explore the keys to success in planning and executing a management retreat.
Untitled Document
By Carter McNamara:
There is no one perfect strategic planning model for each organization. Each organization ends up developing its own nature and model of strategic planning, often by selecting a model and modifying it as they go along in developing their own planning process. The following models provide a range of alternatives from which organizations might select an approach and begin to develop their own strategic planning process
The Communication Plan Fr Strategic Planning
By NSBA:
Strategic planning can be a tremendous communication and marketing campaign, don't miss the opportunity. Build your communication plan before strategic planning begins, don't wait until the end to do PR. You will benefit tremendously with a good communication plan
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