As external environments have become more turbulent and dynamic, many organizations have been forced to reconsider the importance of strategic planning as a way of remaining competitive. At the same time, the basic nature and process of strategic planning is changing.

No longer strictly the province of senior managers and corporate planners, strategic planning is now carried out across many different organizational levels. The Strategic Planning Challenge provides an opportunity for managers and executives to improve their strategy formulation and implementation skills as well as their ability to work together as a team.

Strategic planning has evolved and now emphasizes the need to maximize the involvement of organizational members. The process needs to be flexible and dynamic while incorporating qualitative as well as quantitative measures of results.

Strategy formulation and strategy implementation are the two major phases of the strategic management process. The strategy formulation involves defining the organization’s philosophy and mission, establishing long and short term objectives, and identifying alternatives to achieve the objectives. The strategy implementation defines the leadership and structures to support the strategy, the development of budgets and systems, and perhaps most importantly, monitoring the effectiveness of the strategy and making adjustments as needed.

Many owners may have already sketched out the corporate strategic plan which defines the mission and determines the available resources. Involving more of the organization will improve the effectiveness of achieving the goals and competitive strategies by devising programs and implementing the strategy in a way that would provide the owner feedback in control.

1. Understanding activities critical to the development of a comprehensive strategic plan.
2. Initiate positive changes that go directly to the bottom line
3. Improve the team’s effectiveness in creating the best action plans from the combined knowledge, skills, abilities and ideas of the group.
4. Launch teambuilding efforts that will create a more productive workplace.

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