Strategic Planning is the process of defining a strategy and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people.
Strategic planning is the formal consideration of an organisation's or a community's future course. When developing strategies, analysis of the organisation and its environment as it is at the moment and how it may develop in the future, is important. The analysis has to be executed at an internal level as well as an external level to identify all opportunities and threats of the external environment as well as the strengths and weaknesses of the organisation or community itself.
Strategic planning is a very important activity. It is practiced widely informally and formally. Strategic planning and decision processes should end with objectives and a roadmap of ways to achieve those objectives. Definitions vary, overlap and fail to achieve clarity. The most common of these concepts are specific, time bound statements of intended future results and general and continuing statements of intended future results, which most models refer to as either goals or objectives. Strategy follows Vision and Mission, and underpins to the Structure of the organisation.
Facilitation of strategy briefings is key to implementing your strategic plan and making strategy a habit for everyone involved. Holding meetings helps you focus your goals on accomplishing top priorities. We would be delighted to facilitate your strategy meetings. Our experienced consultants are very keen on getting quality results and helping your board and executive team to get the best out of your meeting(s). Feel free to contact us to see if we can be of assistance.