Saturday, May 17, 2014

What is strategic planning?

What is strategic planning?
For any organization, strat planning is an organized effort to predict the future environment of the organization, and begin preparing now to succeed and survive in that future.
Broad, long-term plans are expanded into a sequence of short term operations, projects, and budgets.
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Systematic process of envisioning a desired future, and translating this vision into broadly defined goals or objectives and a sequence of steps to achieve them. In contrast to long-term planning (which begins with the current status and lays down a path to meet estimated future needs), strategic planning begins with the desired-end and works backward to the current status. At every stage of long-range planning the planner asks, "What must be done here to reach the next (higher) stage?" At every stage of strategic-planning the planner asks, "What must be done at the previous (lower) stage to reach here?" Also, in contrast to tactical planning (which focuses at achieving narrowly defined interim objectives with predetermined means), ...refer to link below for more details.

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