This document provides an overview of DVIRC's strategic planning process to help businesses grow sales, profitability, and execution success. It discusses using primary and secondary research in the planning process to validate strengths, identify opportunities, and understand weaknesses and threats. The research also helps answer strategic questions about the current situation and future goals. The benefits of strategic planning include creating a inspiring vision, developing leadership buy-in, providing implementation plans, and monitoring progress. The process involves defining the future vision, analyzing the current state and gaps, and building policy matrices to deploy the one-year plan through follow-ups and adjustments.

1. Strategic Planning Overview

2. About Our Planning Process: DVIRC’s Strategic Action Plan Has Been Constructed To Help Businesses Experience: Growth in Sales,Growth in Profitabilityand Success in Execution.

3. About Our Planning Process:

5. Scout Out – Feasible Market Opportunities

6. Call out and/or Confirm Weaknesses & Threats

8. What do we have to work with? (Boston Matrix- Some VOC)

10. Research In Strategy

11. Research In Strategy

12. Research In Strategy

13. Research In Strategy Boston Matrix (BCG)

14. Research In Strategy

16. THE MORE THE BUSINESS DEPENDS ON THE OWNER, THE LESS VALUABLE IT IS.

18. Where are you now?

19. What needs to be accomplished?

21. Use normal work systems

22. Processes already exist

23. Some improvements needed

25. Normal work systems won’t do the job

26. Adequate processes don’t exist

27. New ways need to be discovered

28. Exceed customer needs

29. Better than competitors

31. Develops buy-in and accountability from key leaders.

32. Provides professional, written plans to all team members that are easy to modify when the situation changes.

34. Identify the Major Changes Desired between now and 2014

36. Vision Specifics Today 2014

38. Identify Core Competencies

39. What you do today and for who

41. Process Overview: What to Expect Build Policy Deployment Matrices for Year One. (Three days)

43. Make Adjustments as Necessary!