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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 (Added: 23-Oct-2000 Hits: 602)

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. (Added: 4-Oct-2005 Hits: 2177)

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 (Added: 17-Mar-2003 Hits: 677)

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? (Added: 4-Oct-2005 Hits: 607)

Course and Direction - A Culture of Leadership

By Barry Wolfson Leadership has sometimes been described as taking people to a place that they would not normally go to on their own. Barry Wolfson explores the leadership attributes that managers within an organization must have to successfully implement their company's strategic vision. (Added: 6-Sep-2003 Hits: 770)

Strategy Rules - Planning in a fast paced Internet environment

By na How do you define a long-term strategy in an economy that moves at the speed of the Net? Is there a difference between a "business strategy" and an "Internet strategy"? And who makes strategy these days -- senior executives in corner offices, or the people who are closest to customers? (Added: 31-May-2005 Hits: 727)

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