Strategic Planning

Strategic planning is a step-by-step process through which organizations engage in two types of activities. Specifically, the organization

1.
Identifies where it wants to be and what it wants to accomplish long-term (often 3–5 years).
2.
Begins to map out how its vision and mission for those years will be attained.

In an oversimplified sense, strategic planning is the process of looking into the future, painting a picture of where we want to be and what we want to achieve in that future, and ascertaining how we will get there. It is a type of “extreme proactivity” rather than reactivity…of planning for the future rather than simply responding to it as it unfolds.

There are a number of compelling reasons for organizations to ...

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