Strategic Planning

In a recent study by management consultants, Bain & Company, US and European companies ranked strategic planning as their most important business tool.

Yet there is ample evidence that many organisations do not do strategic planning the way it should be done. For those organisations that do plan, many simply duplicate and extend this year's efforts into next year's.

Henry Mintzberg, in his book, "The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning", argued that many organisations instead of doing strategic planning are actually doing strategic programming that is devoid of imagination and innovation.

For managers and executives who want to do effective strategic planning, this programme will equip you with the tools to develop a strategic plan for your organisation.

The Programme

The programme starts off with a discussion on the nature of strategic planning and why this process is so prone to failure.

Through identifying the negative influences on planning, participants will realise that it is essential that they get critical stakeholders and senior management to be involved in the process.

The five major steps in strategic planning involve:

Preliminary Planning: Once senior management has agreed to be involved in the planning process, the next step is to run a preliminary planning session or a plan-to-plan session. This session will identify the senior managers to be involved, create a framework for communication and decision making, and a rough timeline for the process.

Setting Objectives: When the framework is created, identify objectives, mission, vision and values will begin.

Data Gathering: Once the objectives are identified, the next step is data gathering of sales figures, trend analysis, environmental scanning, customers' needs and requirements, strengths and weaknesses, and opportunities.

Strategies: The planning session will then move to the creating of strategies that will move the organisation to the objectives identified.

Action Plan: An Action Plan is then drawn up on the strategies that are to be implemented.

Benefits

At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

Set up strategic objectives
Identify their organisation's strengths and weaknesses
Identify markets and competitions
Formulate possible strategies
Do a strategic plan for their organisation or department
Draw up and implement an action plan

Who should attend

Senior managers, corporate planners, department heads, professionals, business owners, entrepreneurs, school principals and heads of department who have to plan the future direction of their companies, organisations businesses and schools.

What you will cover in this programme:

Strategic thinking and strategic planning
Key components of strategic planning and strategic management
Identifying leaders and stakeholders
Setting strategic objectives and goals
How to create a shared vision
How to develop and write mission and vision statements
Trend analysis
Cultural assessment
Identifying competitors and their strengths and weaknesses
External factors and environment scanning
Using environmental scanning to define your market
Key success measures
Current state assessment
Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats (SWOT)
Formulate strategies to meet objectives
Implementation strategies
Draw up an action plan

More information

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