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Results-Oriented Strategic Planning
Dwight D. Eisenhower said, “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” In other words, the process is more important than the document.
That’s because creating an effective plan requires a comprehensive commitment that extends to the depths of the company’s soul. It requires an understanding of all external factors that define a company's market such as product, pricing, customers, and competition. But it also requires an honest assessment of the company's resources and psychology. That's why creating the document represents only a small part of a successful strategic planning process. It's relatively easy to assess where you are now and where you need to go. It's much more difficult to change the status quo. Will managers and employees view the new plan as a waste of time? Or will they be enfranchised in the process, such that they have a vested interest in core elements of the plan as well as its implementation and the subsequent results?
If you attempt to do strategic planning yourself, will you see the hidden problems? Will you challenge your unquestioned assumptions? Will you get the best results?
Karl Buhl Consulting approaches strategic planning using a technique that creates multiple plans for multiple scenarios, instead of a single plan based on only one vision of the future. Then we help you and your organization implement it, so that you achieve the results you’ve targeted.
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