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Strategic Planning
Strategic
planning can help you significantly, and
not only if you are a CEO.
 If
you are in any kind of leadership
position, our strategic planning can
take your department, group or
organization to higher levels of
performance. Strategic planning can
help troubled organizations succeed, and
move successful organizations to next
levels of innovation, quality and
productivity. Strategic planning can
help your department manage change,
increase internal alignment, reduce
conflict and improve morale. Strategic
planning really can help you “invent
your future.”
Despite this potential, many
organizations are dissatisfied with
their experience with strategic
planning. Many write excellent plans
but fail to implement them, hold
retreats but fail to bring the results
back to the organization. Many
organizations miss the boat completely,
confusing strategic planning with
tactical or business planning,
mechanically increasing last year’s
numbers by 10%.
We have consulted, taught and written
extensively on strategic planning.
While other consulting organizations
approach strategic planning in one-time
retreats, we use a much more effective
method emphasizing ongoing
organizational learning and
improvement.
You can
download three documents that provide
useful information on how to get the
most from strategic planning:
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Strategic Planning
provides a brief overview of what to
do, pitfalls to avoid and best
practices to follow
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Business Intelligence
provides valuable detail on how to
use survey data to provide business
intelligence analysis that builds a
strong foundation for strategic
planning
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Strategic Planning AIA 2005
is a Report on Strategic Planning we
wrote for the American Institute of
Architects 2005 Practice Management
Manual (John Wiley, 2005)
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