Strategic Planning
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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.
By na
Looks at strategic planning basics, what is needed to carry it out successfully, and relates strategic planning to total quality management (TQM) and process improvement.
(Added: 19-Jul-2005 Hits: 881)
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
(Added: 23-Oct-2000 Hits: 744)
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.
(Added: 4-Oct-2005 Hits: 743)
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.
(Added: 23-Oct-2000 Hits: 757)
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.
(Added: 21-Mar-2005 Hits: 557)
By na
For the vast majority of companies, having well-defined visions and mission statements changes nothing. The exercise of crafting them is a complete waste of time and talent if visions and mission statements are used for nothing but being published in the annual report and displayed in a reception area. "One of the chief reasons for the failure of missions and visions to achieve the desired objective is the naiveté of most company managers and executives. Nothing happens by magic".5 To be able to energize employees to work towards corporate objectives, visions and missions should be more than a sign on the wall. Executives and managers should live them, be seen living them, and constantly communicate them to their employees.
(Added: 28-Jul-2005 Hits: 871)
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