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Strategic planning

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us: Strategic planning


  • Here are entered works on the process by which an organization formulates its long range goals and selects activities for achieving them.

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    • us: Goal setting (Strategic planning)
    • us: Planning, Strategic
    • us: Strategic intent (Strategic planning)
    • us: Strategic management

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    • found: Work cat: Brand, C.G. A model for the formulation of strategic intent based on a comparison of business and the military, 2011.
    • found: 1000ventures.com, Oct. 24, 2011 (Strategic intent takes the form of a number of corporate challenges, specified as short term projects and opportunities; that must convey a significant stretch for your company, a sense of direction, discovery, and opportunity that can be communicated as worthwhile to all employees; should not focus on today's problems, which are dealt with by company visions and missions, but rather on tomorrow's opportunities; should specify the competitive factors, critical to the success in the future)
    • found: 247adviser.com, Oct 24, 2011 (Succeeding in the business world requires what professors Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad term "strategic intent"; they explain that it is a business' long-term, far-reaching goal; to determine your business' strategic intent, you must not only consider what you want in the next five or ten years, but what you want to accomplish in a 50 year time frame; main tenets of strategic intent planning are direction, discovery and destiny; sense of direction includes an understanding about the long-term market or competitive market or competitive position that a firm claims to build over the next decade; sense of destiny should retain a sense of discovery and excitement about the future; sense of destiny has an emotional edge to it and should be a goal that both you and your employees perceive as inherently worthwhile)

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    • HD30.28

  • General Notes

    • Here are entered works on the process by which an organization formulates its long range goals and selects activities for achieving them.

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    • 1986-02-11: new
    • 2012-02-09: revised

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