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Is Strategic Planning Passé?
Dr Robin C Hesler, Canada, Member
Is strategic planning in the traditional sense passé? It may very well be given the rapidly changing environment organizations face especially in technology including social media and the collapsing financial world.
Maybe one should be planning for only 1 year, assessing and revising the corporation's strategies. The rigid structure of strategic planning may need a new model....
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The Human Factor in Strategic Planning
P. ter Horst, Strategy Consultant, Chile, Member I think strategic planning is not passé, and you're right about looking for change in a model. But strategic planning should always involve |
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Strategic Planning
Dr Robin C Hesler, Canada, Member Good comments mr. ter Horst. I didn't mean that strategic planning itself is passe but the model or perception that most people have about it and that... |
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Strategic Plans Can no Longer Be 'Hardwired'
Barri Blauvelt, Professor, United States, Member Strategic planning is more critical than ever, but needs to encompass " horizon scanning" methods more than an extrapolation of historica... |
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Strategic Planning Needed but Do it Well !
Augusto Carreira, Partner, Portugal, Member Strategies are in general no more than guesswork about an open future.
A strategy should be a timed response to an external problem and should b... |
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Strategic Planning? Yes, But not Carved in Stone
Tony Wasserman, Professor, United States, Member For me, the problem isn't with strategic planning, but rather the mindset of the people who become irrevocably wed to their strategic plans, even in t... |
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Long Term Strategic Planning
Eduardo Montes, Consultant, Mexico, Member It seems that we always forget that businesses are established for a long live and SP is the tool for it. Review your plan each three years, with flex... |
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Contingency Planning
Timmy Baksh, Analyst, Trinidad and Tobago, Member Strategic planning has always had that "long term" component to it...
I think strategy plans in today's world have a shelf life of 3 years at th... |
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Sense & Respond Factor in Strategic Planning
Jaffer Hussainee, Consultant, Japan, Member If an organization has a "vision" of its future than strategic planning is as essential as ever - it is the rigidity of the strategic planning mode... |
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What is Strategic Planning?
Madan Gopal Agarwal, Business Consultant, India, Member The definition itself clarifies what it means - a process of development and implementation of actions to meet goal of the organisation - it has envir... |
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Change of Strategic Factors
Arunas Beksta, management consultant and trainer, Lithuania, Member I'm thinking about the strategic factors we use for strategic planning. It seems to me that the factors we are currently applying for constructing the... |
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Strategic Planning Now Requires Continous Monitoring
Prof. Alkis S. Magdalinos, Business Consultant, Greece, Member Strategic planning has always been a difficult exercise for management. And the longer the time horizon you must plan for, the more difficult it is. T... |
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Is Strategic Planning Passe
John L Smith, Consultant, United States, Member Yes, it's passe. No, it's not. It's still helpful. But it's limited.
Remember that according to Mintzberg ("Strategy Safari") there are as much a... |
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Strategic Learning Rather Than Planning
MICHAEL PETIT, PHD, Director, Australia, Member Strategic planning outcomes are simply a manifestation of the learning processes within an organisations.
It could be argued that changes... |
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Abandoning Strategy is Unwise
Tom Griffin, Analyst, United States, Member Suggesting that you abandon strategy will diffuse energy and assure defeat. Do we think Apple, Microsoft, or Cisco have no strategies? I would suggest... |
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Future of Strategic Planning
JAWAD, Teacher, Pakistan, Member Yes I agree with all said, but we have to consider the environmental factors that affect the organizational objectives and ultimately strategic intent... |
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FAST LEARNING is a Key Competitive Advantage
Sallmann, Manager, Belgium, Member I really agree with your statement Michael, fast learning is a key competitive advantage companies have to develop, and acceptance of new ideas... |
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Is Strategic Planning Passé?
Tero Kaleva, Partner, Finland, Member I would start my answer from the need. If you can prosper without a plan, by just reacting to the existing situation, it might not be necessary to pla... |
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Strategic Planning Passe?
karel sovak, Professor, United States, Member Strategic planning is all about dedicating the proper resources toward some creation - in a for profit case that is more likely wealth (profit). Howev... |
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Strategic Planning Passe
kamholtz, United States, Member Most have described innovative approaches to their strategy system. To say it is passe seems an absurdity to me being that each post has explained int... |
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Strategic Planning NOT Passe
James Hoker, Student (Other), United States, Member To say strategic planning is passe, suggests insufficient business acumen, questionable performance, and irresponsibility to all stakeholders.
T... |
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'Change is Fast and Planning is Useless' - Mantra
Brian Flagg, Management Consultant, United States, Member Hooray James Hoker (and others).
Not only is it NOT passe, strategic planning is the only way forward to achieving and sustaining competitive... |
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Unused Strategic Plans
Suleiman C. Muttani, Consultant, Tanzania, Member Many strategic plans are not put into use! In the developing countries in particular, which depend on foreign aid to supplement budgetary requi... |
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What is Planning For?
Erdohegyi Gabor , Management Consultant, Hungary, Member My approach and explanation to planning: planning is to serve conscious and more effective |
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Is Strategic Planning Passe?
Vijay Jassal, Entrepreneur, India, Member Definitely not! One needs strategic planning at all stages. Even more in fast paced changing environment. Just because the strategy is not well though... |
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Strategic Planning is Important
KATHRYN STEINER, MBA, Entrepreneur, United States, Member Strategic planning has to incorporate emerging trends and opportunities. There should be a short and long term strategy that has these trends and s... |
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Empowerment and Orchestration
Gabriel Ramirez, Professor, Colombia, Member In an ever faster changing complex environment, good strategic planing isn't enough
What is also needed are autonomy and |
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Realistic Strategic Planning
Amondson, Student (MBA), Australia, Member We all know the pros and cons of SP, but with any form of planning one has to remember that it has to be realistic, have a objective, and garbage in =... |
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Strategic Planning not Time Bound
BNYa, Consultant, India, Member I don't consider the strategic plan to be time bound. A SP defines what business the company wants to do and how.
It is different from yearly bus... |
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Strategic Planning is Time Bound
Augusto Carreira, Partner, Portugal, Member What is the difference between a strategic plan and a business plan? None. If one doesn't understand this then one does not know what strategic planni... |
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Strategic Planning is Time Bound
Prof. Alkis S. Magdalinos, Business Consultant, Greece, Member Sorry Bnya but strategic planning is definitely time bound as Carreira says, since it is directly connected to what you wish to achieve ultimately in ... |
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Strategic Planning - Can't See What's Changed
Sabine Pitcher, Manager, United Kingdom, Member Maybe I'm just not getting it - we've always had a "3-year strategic plan" which was flexible to revision. We've had annual targets. And we're constan... |
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Strategic Planning not Time Bound
KATHRYN STEINER, MBA, Entrepreneur, United States, Member I do agree that there should be a long term (5+years) strategic plan, with specific areas that may be anticipated to change in the short term. Analysi... |
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Strategic Planning not Passe.. Meaning Evolving..
KATHRYN STEINER, MBA, Entrepreneur, United States, Member There are large conglomerates, and smaller businesses, who will be swallowed up in the next economic downturn? There are operations which has to produ... |
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Is Strategic Planning Passe
Prof. Alkis S. Magdalinos, Business Consultant, Greece, Member Dear Kathryn, your comments are very interesting. I believe that survival, apart from continuously monitoring the environment and internal operations ... |
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Is Strategic Planning Passe
Daniel Schneider, Business Consultant, United States, Member Having read many of the comments, I have begun to crystallize my thoughts. If strategic planning can be thought of as being either "static" or "dynami... |
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Is Strategic Planning Passe
Lindquist, Teacher, United States, Member I must agree with those who have suggested that a 3 to 5 year dynamic strategic plan is still essential for any organization. While things change rapi... |
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Collaboration in Strategic Planning
KATHRYN STEINER, MBA, Entrepreneur, United States, Member There is a global climate of uncertainty, which makes it precarious to strategically plan past 3 years, with great accuracy. It appears from this disc... |
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3 Different Levels of Strategic Planning
Merryck Leigh, Business Consultant, United States, Member I think that many are lumping strategic planning into one big entity. While there have to be linkages in order for the plan to work, I see:
1. th... |
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What Makes Strategic Planning Inflexible
Prof. Alkis S. Magdalinos, Business Consultant, Greece, Member Merryck, your comment is very good. In general strategy and strategic planning refer to long periods of time and the ultimate goals of an enterprise. ... |
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Strategic Planning
Timmy Baksh, Analyst, Trinidad and Tobago, Member Merryck, I like your break down and approach to this issue, spoken like a true entrepreneur, together with Prof. Magdalinos you both have put a nice s... |
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Strategic Planning is Evolving...
Dr Gary Jones, Business Consultant, Australia, Member Strategic planning commenced in the 1950's. It was then referred to as long term planning where it was designed to get a fit between the extern... |
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Strategic Planning Needs Adaptation
Lazaro Tobon Vallejo, Teacher, Colombia, Member Strategic planning isn't passé. It needs adaptation to new realities and adapt to a dynamic environment, using tools like situational strategic pla... |
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Type of Strategic Planning Needed
Dr Gary Jones, Business Consultant, Australia, Member You are certainly right Lazaro. The continued appraisal of the SP is essential (to ensure the assumptions that the SP was based upon are still relativ... |
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Is Strategic Planning Passe?
Prof. Alkis S. Magdalinos, Business Consultant, Greece, Member Strategic planning is consistent with the ultimate objectives of a company. As such it cannot be said that it is passe. However, in world with conditi... |
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Future Objective is Required
Clark Brady, Strategy Consultant, United States, Member Good comments have been given by others, mine is an argument in the negative...
If you have ever mowed a lawn or planted a field you will appreci... |
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Is Strategic Planning Passe?
Ted Garrison, Management Consultant, United States, Member Is strategic planning passe. Never. You asked about the constant change. Too often people think that because business conditions change too fast they ... |
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Strategic Planning is More Profitable
salem ahmed, Manager, Yemen, Member To develop your strategic planning has to subsequently determine: your core competencies, critical challenges, strategic advantages, that 's relying o... |
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