Category Archives: Strategic Planning

Focus your organisation’s energy

Strategic Planning, Strategy

We all know that strategic planning is good. But why?

One of the outcomes of planning your organisation’s strategies is that it brings focus to what you are doing. With that focus comes a more effective and efficient release of, if you will, organisational energy.

Think of a top athlete. That athlete puts aside all distractions in order to focus their energy on winning.

Think of an A-grade student. That student ensures that their attention is devoted to subject mastery.

Think of your business, your company, your organization. To achieve the best outcome, to realise efficient resource usage, to be the most productive: there needs to be focus to all of your activities.

And without a properly formed and considered strategic plan to guide the release of the energy that is within your organisation, sub-optimal outcomes are yours.

Investment is wasted, staff are not used appropriately, business development resources are wasted. Business direction is a circle instead of an arrow.

Good strategic planning will focus your organisation’s energy.

 

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Strategic Planning is more than Gap Analysis

Cognitive Strategy, Cultural Strategy, Design Strategy, Entrepreneurial Strategy, Environmental Strategy, Planning Strategy, Positioning Strategy, Power Strategy, Strategic Planning, Strategy

Strategic planning is more than just gap analysis. What’s more, there is no single accepted definition of what it is.

Some say that its a top down approach, a rational approach. Others say its fluid, that the macro environment is the major determinant. Still others have a organization-centric resource-only based view toward strategic planning.

What’s your view? What’s your approach?

Is yours & your organisation’s approach to strategic more of a cerebral, formalised, top-down. Or is it more entrepreneurial. That its the visionary leader who “will take us there”.

So, given then that the word “strategy” is derived from the Greek word “Strategia”, meaning “art of war”, the implication is that its part art, part science. Part feel, part intentional design.

And given that strategy has to do with the direction of your organisation & its scope of activities, what are the questions you need to be asking? What are the timelines you are talking about? How much information do you need for you decision making process?

What are your values?

What then is your vision?

For, it all flows from your vision

 

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