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Key Concepts Of Strategic Planning |
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Remember your audience
and your stakeholders when performing your strategic planning. The result should
be a document that everyone involved in the planning process understands and
supports. If nothing else it should be
user friendly and provide clear picture of the organization and where it is
heading.
Key Concepts:
- The process is strategic because it involves
choosing how best to respond to circumstances of a dynamic and sometimes
hostile environment
- Strategic planning is systematic in that it
calls for following a process that is structured and in the case of Title
I planning "data based"
- Strategic planning involves choosing specific
priorities
- The process is about building commitment or buy
in
- Strategic planning guides the acquisition and
allocation of resources
Whether the organization is big or small
the most important impact of strategic planning should be to focus attention on
why the organization exists and why a number of persons are interested and committed
to its purpose to such an extent that they are willing to work to make it thriving.
Successful strategic planning advances the
focus of an organization in that it generates:
- A clear understanding of the organization's
mission, vision and values among key stakeholders
- A road map for action based on what is happening
now
- Benchmarks by which we can determine achievement
- Information that can be used to market the
organization
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