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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.

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  • Our Dead Strategic Plan and How To Make It Come Alive

    By Robert Bacal So much strategic planning efforts end up wasted because what happens AFTER the plan is created is so often neglected. Strategic plans should be dynamic guides for action and decision-making throughout the organization, and not end up in the back of drawers, forgotten, irrelevant, and gathering dust. This month we examine ways to make strategic plans "come alive". (Added: 4-Oct-2005 Hits: 461)
  • 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. (Added: 10-Mar-2001 Hits: 438)
  • CORPORATE VISION, MISSION, GOALS, and STRATEGY

    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: 749)
  • 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 (Added: 27-Mar-2005 Hits: 612)
  • STRATEGIC PLANNING

    By Business Week After a decade of gritty downsizing, Big Thinkers are back in corporate vogue (Added: 23-Oct-2000 Hits: 1312)
  • The Importance of Being Strategic

    By EDWARD PREWITT AND STEPHANIE OVERBY What does it mean to be strategic today? It means taking an enterprisewide view rather than simply focusing on your department. It means welcoming the business heads into your planning process rather than assuming that they will turn up providentially when it's time to make critical IT decisions. It means devising budgets based on what can benefit the company as a whole rather than responding serially to the requests of individual business chiefs (Added: 31-May-2005 Hits: 503)

 

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