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Strategic Planning

(One-day Workshop)

Introduction

This workshop is designed to combine proven-by-practice strategic planning methods with new insights and ideas from a wide range of current thinking. Participants learn strategic planning for the department level by doing and gaining a wider perspective of practice exercises and department case study situations.

WHAT YOU WILL COVER:

Strategic Planning Process Overview

  • Identify the questions that any strategic planning exercise must address
  • Identify the analyses typically incorporated in a strategic planning
  • Describe how these questions and analyses can be organized into a structured strategic planning process
  • Make choices concerning some of the decisions necessary in designing a strategic planning approach
  • Describe how your planning effort relates to planning at other levels of the organization

Strategic Planning Principle

  • A frame of reference for strategic planning concepts
  • Schools of thought in strategic planning
  • The evolution of strategy

The Strategic Planning Process

  • Understanding the basic elements of strategic planning
  • Developing and managing the strategy formation process

Understanding Your Organization’s Mission

  • Incorporating your organization’s core values
  • Creating a mission statement for your own organization

Assessing the External Environment

  • Identifying macro and micro factors
  • Responding to changes in the environment
  • Using the I/P (Importance/Performance) matrix as a competitive tool

Understanding Your Internal Environment

  • The importance of history
  • How to become a high-performing department
  • Key elements of developing strategy

Formulating Your Strategic Planning

  • Data synthesis
 
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