Strategic Planning

Overview

- What is strategic planning?
- How do you deploy a strategic plan?
- How do you measure performance?

"Corporations around the world are reaching the limits of incrementalism. Squeezing another cent out of costs, getting the product to market a few weeks earlier, responding to customers' enquiries a little bit faster, ratcheting quality up one more notch, capturing another point of market share - these are the obsessions of managers today. But pursuing incremental improvement while rivals reinvent the industry is like fiddling while Rome burns."
Gary Hamel
Visiting Professor of Strategy and International Management
London School of Business

Most strategic planning processes work from today forward not from the future back - implicitly assuming, whatever the evidence to the contrary, that the future will be more or less like the present. Only a tiny percentage of the industry conventions are ever challenged, rendering strategy-making largely extrapolative.

Topics Covered

Over the 2 days you will cover:

Strategy Development Process
• Key steps
• Key participants
• Data collection and analysis
• Mission, Vision, Values
• Key Business Drivers, Key Performance Indicators
• The Balanced Scorecard
• SWOT Analysis
• Portfolio Analysis

Strategic Objectives Defined
• Brainstorming
• Weighted Voting
• Pareto Analysis
• Accountability
• Scheduling
• Review
  
  Action Plan Development & Deployment
• 1 Page Plan
• Ability to drill down
• Bottom up - Top Down
• Measurement
• Short Term - Long range
• Strategic capacity
• Resource allocation
• Organisational alignment
  
  Performance Projection
• Short Term
• Long Term
• Goals
• Competitor Comparisons
• Benchmarking Comparisons

Who should attend

• CEOs
• General Managers
• Divisional Managers
• Senior Managers who are accountable for development of strategic direction

Outcomes

A practical guide to installing a 1 Page Planning process

• The tools to use in the preparation of a 1 Page Plan
• Alignment of the Mission, Value and Values with the Strategic Plan
• Focus on the critical few from the trivial many issues
• Total alignment with the Baldridge criteria
• Proven process employed by leading New Zealand enterprises
• Application of the 1 Page Planning process