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Strategic Planning

Written by: Jim Rose

Article Overview: Organizations wanting to ensure long range success must have an effective Strategic Planning Process. Does Yours?

Strategic Planning

How many people have heard of Strategic Planning Processes that have not worked? So often this is where leaders of organizations go off site for a few days and develop wonderful documents that describe a glorious future. However, after the session the leaders go back to work and within a few weeks resume what they were doing before the Strategic Planning Session started. There is a better way to go about Strategic Planning. First, ask yourself, which is more important; a high level Vision and beautiful Strategies or a means for tactically implementing specific changes? The correct answer in my opinion is that both are equally important. Without a good high level Vision and Strategies an organization is doomed to failure. Without a good means to implement change to achieve the Vision through well-defined Strategies; the high level Vision and Strategies are meaningless. Implementing specific changes that are not linked to a Vision are potentially worthless. A secret is that the two must be effective and linked. A Strategic Planning process could also be described as a process for Managing Change. Should your Strategic Planning process not be producing the desired results, I suggest honestly examining your process and determine if you are confident you can improve it. If not look for a consultant that can demonstrate success with multiple client references. You cannot afford to operate without an effective process in today's competitive world.

Jim Rose

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