There are six main reasons why strategic plans often fail: lack of focus, lack of energy/resources, lack of understanding, lack of accountability, lack of follow up, and lack of flexibility. The key to making strategic planning successful is to approach it as a three phase process - intuitive thinking, long-range planning, and operational planning. Breaking the process into distinct phases allows organizations to properly focus on big picture questions, do analytical planning, and develop practical implementation plans.
Put your brilliant business ideas to action. Here are easy to implement leadership actions to get your strategic initiative on track to deliver results.
Recent research shows that companies engaging in quarterly goal-setting processes are almost four times more likely to be at the top of their industry compared with those utilizing an annual planning cycle. Find out how these high-performing organizations build strategic-thinking frameworks and incorporate regular goal-setting, giving them the flexibility to adjust their plans as circumstances change or new information arises. Go beyond the yearly plan and see how to think more strategically within the rhythm of your day-to-day responsibilities. Leave with a set of practical steps you can take to help your organization accomplish its goals.
Looking for a great presentation and workshop on strategic thinking and leadership and their role in creating an inspiring and awesome strategic vision and plan? Look no further. Please feel free to call me if you would like me to put on a 2 hour overview of this workshop for your organization or you would like to discuss any points further. My number is 612-310-3803.
Strategy to Execution: Tips to Execute Your Strategy With Excellence.Avi Mizrahi, MBA, BBA.
Strategy is sexy. Execution is really difficult. Perhaps that's why so many strategic initiatives fail. I believe that transitioning from strategy to execution is the biggest challenge facing today's organizations. Execution is a leader's job and this presentation will lay out a practical approach to ensure your strategy is executed with excellence.
Put your brilliant business ideas to action. Here are easy to implement leadership actions to get your strategic initiative on track to deliver results.
Recent research shows that companies engaging in quarterly goal-setting processes are almost four times more likely to be at the top of their industry compared with those utilizing an annual planning cycle. Find out how these high-performing organizations build strategic-thinking frameworks and incorporate regular goal-setting, giving them the flexibility to adjust their plans as circumstances change or new information arises. Go beyond the yearly plan and see how to think more strategically within the rhythm of your day-to-day responsibilities. Leave with a set of practical steps you can take to help your organization accomplish its goals.
Looking for a great presentation and workshop on strategic thinking and leadership and their role in creating an inspiring and awesome strategic vision and plan? Look no further. Please feel free to call me if you would like me to put on a 2 hour overview of this workshop for your organization or you would like to discuss any points further. My number is 612-310-3803.
Strategy to Execution: Tips to Execute Your Strategy With Excellence.Avi Mizrahi, MBA, BBA.
Strategy is sexy. Execution is really difficult. Perhaps that's why so many strategic initiatives fail. I believe that transitioning from strategy to execution is the biggest challenge facing today's organizations. Execution is a leader's job and this presentation will lay out a practical approach to ensure your strategy is executed with excellence.
Strategic Thinking is critical to all aspects of planning, budgeting, and policy development and analysis in private, nonprofit, and government organizations of all sizes. This brief overview contains the 12 critical components of Strategic Thinking and comparisons with conventional ideas.
Leadership Principles for High Impact Results by Peggy KlingelPeggy Klingel
Strong leadership is needed to drive results. With effective team building and communication a compelling vision can make all the difference in motivating teams to achieve challenging turnaround, startup or change management strategies. Successful leaders coach, develop and motivate team members to perform at their best.
This is the first in a five part series on Strategy Execution. The series is comprised of:
1. Strategy Execution
2. Using Metrics to Define Success
3. Job Design and Delegation
4. Performance Management and Communication
5. Coaching and Motivation
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SME Strategy consulting has provided 8 reasons why you should use a strategic planning facilitator. Learn more at www.smestrategy.net
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Why do strategic planning? Here are some use cases from our business strategy and strategic planning facilitation clients. Some of the key questions that we were able to answer for teams and the results that they received,
Strategic Thinking and Repositioning Day1Timothy Wooi
This 2 day hand-on practical program consisting of 5 parts is specially designed to focus on creating stretch and inter-connectedness
PART A: INTRODUCTION TO STRATEGIC THINKING
Strategic Thinking Versus Strategic Planning
Strategic Management Process
The Purpose of Vision and Mission
(Team Activity)
PART B: THE BEGINNING OF THE STRATEGIC FORMULATION JOURNEY
Auditing General Environmental Influences
Thinking Tool for External Evaluation
(Team Activity)
PART C: EXPLORING THE INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT
Resources, Capabilities and Competencies
Thinking Tool for Internal Evaluation
(Team Activity)
PART D: EXPLORING CURRENT STRATEGIES
Value Chain and Activity Chain Analysis
Using SWOT - How comprehensive are our
current strategies?
Relevancy of Structural Analysis
Customer Intelligences
(Team Activity)
PART E: LATERAL THINKING WITH STRATEGIC POSSIBILITIES
Concept of Value Pioneering
Lack of strategic thinking by management staffs has been identified as a major shortcoming in organisations. Concepts in management and psychology had been drawn and used to remedy this situation.
Strategic thinking needs to be addressed at two different levels:
the individual level and
the organisational level.
Organisations that successfully integrate strategic thinking at these two levels will create a critical core competency that forms the basis of an enduring competitive advantage.
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- Why good managers are critical to your company's success.
- 16 actionable ideas you can use to help your first-time managers today.
- Real-world examples and tips to implement manager development.
Strategic Planning is a key business activity for many organizations, and yet, many of these plans remain on the shelf while day-to-day demands take over. This presentation outlines how psychological type (popularized in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator - MBTI) can be leveraged as a great tool for a strategic planning effort. Originally presented at the August 2009 APTi Conference by Jennifer Tucker and Hile Rutledge:
Strategic Thinking is critical to all aspects of planning, budgeting, and policy development and analysis in private, nonprofit, and government organizations of all sizes. This brief overview contains the 12 critical components of Strategic Thinking and comparisons with conventional ideas.
Leadership Principles for High Impact Results by Peggy KlingelPeggy Klingel
Strong leadership is needed to drive results. With effective team building and communication a compelling vision can make all the difference in motivating teams to achieve challenging turnaround, startup or change management strategies. Successful leaders coach, develop and motivate team members to perform at their best.
This is the first in a five part series on Strategy Execution. The series is comprised of:
1. Strategy Execution
2. Using Metrics to Define Success
3. Job Design and Delegation
4. Performance Management and Communication
5. Coaching and Motivation
Why use a strategic planning facilitator 8 reasons SME Strategy ConsultingAnthony C Taylor
Are you planning a strategic planning session or strategic planning offsite and need a facilitator from a strategy consulting company? It will save you time, money and stress and you'll get much more out of your strategic planning process
SME Strategy consulting has provided 8 reasons why you should use a strategic planning facilitator. Learn more at www.smestrategy.net
A workshop for a staff or school management to use the Mission / Philosophy Statements from the school to analyse and define the marketing and branding of the school.
Strategic planning use cases | Meeting facilitation | SME StrategyAnthony C Taylor
Why do strategic planning? Here are some use cases from our business strategy and strategic planning facilitation clients. Some of the key questions that we were able to answer for teams and the results that they received,
Strategic Thinking and Repositioning Day1Timothy Wooi
This 2 day hand-on practical program consisting of 5 parts is specially designed to focus on creating stretch and inter-connectedness
PART A: INTRODUCTION TO STRATEGIC THINKING
Strategic Thinking Versus Strategic Planning
Strategic Management Process
The Purpose of Vision and Mission
(Team Activity)
PART B: THE BEGINNING OF THE STRATEGIC FORMULATION JOURNEY
Auditing General Environmental Influences
Thinking Tool for External Evaluation
(Team Activity)
PART C: EXPLORING THE INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT
Resources, Capabilities and Competencies
Thinking Tool for Internal Evaluation
(Team Activity)
PART D: EXPLORING CURRENT STRATEGIES
Value Chain and Activity Chain Analysis
Using SWOT - How comprehensive are our
current strategies?
Relevancy of Structural Analysis
Customer Intelligences
(Team Activity)
PART E: LATERAL THINKING WITH STRATEGIC POSSIBILITIES
Concept of Value Pioneering
Lack of strategic thinking by management staffs has been identified as a major shortcoming in organisations. Concepts in management and psychology had been drawn and used to remedy this situation.
Strategic thinking needs to be addressed at two different levels:
the individual level and
the organisational level.
Organisations that successfully integrate strategic thinking at these two levels will create a critical core competency that forms the basis of an enduring competitive advantage.
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Tips for how to manage your job search and how to work with an executive search firm. Visit www.spencerstuart.com/research-and-insight for more insights on career development and leadership.
16 Simple Ways to Help First-Time Managers SucceedJhana
Great managers aren't born; they're taught. Ineffective managers lead to all kinds of expensive problems, including high turnover, low morale, poor company performance.
The good news is that the solution to this problem is simple. Designed for HR leaders in tech, this free reference guide contains 16 simple ways to help first-time managers learn how to be effective managers. You'll learn:
- Why good managers are critical to your company's success.
- 16 actionable ideas you can use to help your first-time managers today.
- Real-world examples and tips to implement manager development.
Strategic Planning is a key business activity for many organizations, and yet, many of these plans remain on the shelf while day-to-day demands take over. This presentation outlines how psychological type (popularized in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator - MBTI) can be leveraged as a great tool for a strategic planning effort. Originally presented at the August 2009 APTi Conference by Jennifer Tucker and Hile Rutledge:
Prioritizing tasks, or planning for them, is one of the biggest strengths of
leaders. They are tasked with re-architecting organizations, and they develop
comprehensive plans to achieve the same. They also ensure they execute the
plan to the best of their abilities, but others get stuck in the planning phase.
Let’s start with what I suggest are some fundamental misconceptions about strategic planning. The biggest misconception is that strategy and planning are one in the same. How often, for example, do you hear people equate strategic planning with a “blueprint” or a “roadmap?” While those words are good metaphors for the word, “plan,” they fail substantially in capturing the meaning of “strategic” or “strategy.”
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Appendix A
Business Plan Assignment
The Business Plan will be about health organization thinking about buying MRI.
One of the ways that organizations prosper is through the introduction of new programs, projects, and other ventures. A business plan is a document that provides the information needed to determine whether the venture is likely to fail or to succeed. A business plan should help you assess whether the proposed venture is sensible, whether it fits the organizational mission, and whether it will be financially viable.
WHY DEVELOP A BUSINESS PLAN
The more time and effort managers put into a project, the more committed they become to it, and the harder it becomes to recognize the project’s limitations. So the first and foremost reason for developing a business plan is to discover weaknesses and eliminate bad proposals at an early stage.
If the plan provides evidence that the proposed venture is a good one, then the plan becomes a vital tool in a number of ways. It provides the details of why the idea is a good one, supporting the idea with evidence instead of merely opinion. It helps to clarify what we do and don’t know about the venture. It provides a basis to identify and analyze elementary tools for convincing others (e.g., our boss or investors) that the idea is a good one, worthy of financial support.
A business plan also serves other purposes. First, it communicates the purpose of the project to everyone throughout the organization. The plan also provides a road map for the future, laying out the steps that will be needed to fully implement the new venture. It should include a formal statement of both financial and nonfinancial goals for the project, and forecasts of what resources will be needed and how they will be obtained. These resources are not only financial, but also include elements such as management talent that will be needed to implement and run the new program. Finally, we prepare a plan so that we will have a basis for assessing and controlling organizational performance once the venture is fully operational.
QUESTIONS THAT DRIVE A BUSINESS PLAN
A business plan document represents an effort to provide answers to many questions:
· What is the venture that is being proposed?
· Why would our organization want to do it?
· Who will we provide products or services for?
· How much will potential customers pay?
· How many potential customers are there?
· What will our share of the market be?
We must be as clear as possible in defining the business concept. To make an evaluation of a project, we need to know whether we are responding to an opportunity or a competitive threat, or simply following the next logical step in achieving the organization’s mission. We must clearly identify the customer for the products or services that will be provided. Understanding the likely possible pricing and demand for the product or service is critical. Similarly, we must address questions related to marketing approaches. There .
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Strategic planning is a disciplined effort. In the end, it produces fundamental decisions and actions that shape
and guide what an organization is, who it serves, what it does and why. With a focus on the future, effective strategic
planning also articulates how an organization will know if it is successful. A successful strategic plan sets priorities,
focuses energy and resources, strengthens operations, and ensures that employees and other stakeholders are work-
ing toward common goals. Strategic planning answers three key questions:
• Where are we?
• Where are we going?
• How will we get there?
Where are we?
Consider the foundational elements of your mission statement, values and/or guiding principles, and SWOT
(strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) to assess where your business is — what is happening internally and
externally — and determine what changes you need to make.
Where are we going?
The future is impossible to predict, but contemplating scenarios will focus your attention and help you define the
future for your business. Specifically, compare your organization to your competitors. What do you do best? What
makes you unique? What can your organization potentially do better than any other organization? Answering these
questions will help you formulate a picture of what your future make up will be and where you are headed.
How will we get there?
This is the meat of your strategic plan. It’s also the most time consuming. There are a number of routes from your
current position to your vision, and picking the right one will determine how quickly or slowly you get to your final
destination. Determine your strategy, set short and long term goals, and develop action items to get you there. Iden-
tify issues that surround management and monitoring of the action items.
Remember, strategic planning is about growing and improving your company. When you don’t plan, the best you can
hope for is maintenance of the status quo. Further down the line, you can expect challenges that will significantly
damage or destroy your organization.
The Seven Rules
In addition to answering the three questions above, effective strategic planning requires following 7 critical rules.
1. Pick the right players.
Selecting who should be part of the planning team is an important question. It is essential that planning team mem-
bers are people who are committed to the growth of the company, and who can provide valuable input to the process.
Unless there is a key employee or manager you want to develop, this is not a time to include every member of your
staff. Vet each team member, ensuring each is of the quality and stature (i.e. gets work done and is respected within
the company) required to be part of the planning group. Members of the planning team must maintain complete
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Why strategic plans fail
1. Why Strategic Plans Fail
There are six reasons why most strategic plans fail.
1) Lack of focus. Often, people get lost in the semantics of defining their vision, mission and
values. They spend so much time and effort trying to understand what those terms mean
and how they fit together that by the time they have it all figured out, they’re mentally
fatigued. As a consequence, once they get to the actual plan creation and implementation,
they’re just trying to get it done and over with. Their energy is drained and now they’re in
survival mode, which is never a good mind-set for strategic planning.
2) Lack of energy/resources. Some people run out of energy or resources before they can
get to a practical plan. For example, one company got halfway through their plan and then
abandoned it. When asked why, they said that they spent their entire budget and ran out of
money. So, sometimes strategic planning doesn’t work because the company hasn’t done
the right kind of allocation and alignment of resources for a comprehensive process.
3) Lack of understanding. Other people confuse strategic planning with operational
planning. That is, they focus on financial numbers, looking at what the numbers were for the
past three years and then extrapolating from that. As a result, the planning becomes just a
matter of establishing financial targets and budgets into the future rather than having a
dynamic debate about the larger strategic issues that could be impacting the organization in
the future.
These people neglect what has changed since the last time they met, what’s changing now,
and what might change in the future. They’re stuck in the accountant’s mind-set. And while
numbers are important, when they dominate the planning process, they’re not being
strategic.
4) Lack of accountability. Sometimes the strategic planning process becomes too political.
There’s too much turf protecting. It becomes a time when people have to give reasons why
their plan didn’t work in the past. That’s when the blame game starts and people become
defensive. As a result, the group cannot deal with the real issues at hand. So no matter what
plan they come up with, they’re not going to have the muscle to execute on that plan
because the bigger issues are still pending. When the process becomes too political and too
driven by special interest, it breaks down.
5) Lack of follow up. Many times, strategic planning fails because even though the actual
plan is complete, there’s little or no follow up to ensure that the plan is executed. They get
the plan created and in a notebook, but they put it on the shelf and never look at it again.
The plan never gets integrated throughout the organization.
6) Lack of flexibility. Finally, strategic plans don’t work because the circumstances change
and the plan becomes obsolete. It may have been a great plan at the time it was created,
but things change in the environment. The fact is that the strategy can be right today but
wrong tomorrow because of external factors. So for a strategic plan to work, you have to
somehow build into that process a mechanism for reviewing and adapting the plan as
circumstances change.
2. Three Phases to Successful Strategic Planning
The key to making strategic planning work is to think about it as being three distinct phases.
The first phase is “intuitive thinking,” and it has more of an emotional attachment to it. This
first phase answers the bigger questions such as, “Why are we in business? Who are our
customers? What do they want from us? What do they get from us? What matters most to
us? What are the values that we want to drive the way we do our business? Where do we
see our company going in the future?” These are big picture, intuitive and often emotionally
loaded questions. At the beginning of the strategic planning process, people need the
opportunity to deliberately and thoughtfully think about how to respond to those questions.
The second phase is long-range planning. Instead of being intuitive, it becomes very
analytical. It’s about understanding such things as where your company fits in the
marketplace, what your strengths are as an organization, where your limitations are, and
how you relate to customers and competitors. It also includes understanding the regulatory
environment, where technology is taking you, and how major trends affect you. So, it’s very
analytical and much more comparative.
The third phase is operational planning. This is when you get very practical and specific.
Based on your intuition and your analysis, you now cover specific issues that you uncovered.
During this phase, it’s a matter of understanding what you really have the bandwidth to do
so you don’t over-commit yourself. For those things that you do commit to, now is the time
to develop your plan for implementing and executing on those issues with excellence, which
includes understanding who is responsible for what, what guidelines they’re going to be
functioning under, what resources they’re going to have available to them, and what
milestones or review points you need to have along the way to make sure everyone is
staying on schedule.
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Similarly, you need to establish how you’ll change as the external circumstances change,
and establish a clear understanding of what the consequences will be of failure or success.
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Realize that you can’t work on all three planning phases at the same time. Each phase builds
upon the last to give you the proper focus and mind-set to make your strategic planning
successful.
When you think about strategic planning in phases and as an ongoing process rather than an
event, you weave your strategy into the organization’s culture. And, that’s when progress
really happens – when your strategic, long-range and operational planning are a normal part
of the way the business functions every day. Only then can your company get the results
that a successful strategic plan delivers.