Strategic Planning Process

The Strategic Planning Process
In the 1970's, many large firms adopted a formalized top-down strategic planning model. Under this model, strategic planning became a deliberate process in which top executives periodically would formulate the firm's strategy, then communicate it down the organization for implementation.

The Strategic Planning Process:

• Mission
• Objectives
• Situation Analysis
• Strategy Formulation
• Implementation
• Control

http://www.netmba.com/strategy/process/

Came across a great website the breaks down the Strategic Planning Process. Wanted to further my research on planning for the new systems implementation I wrote about in my previous blog.

New System Implementation

Our company is in the process of implementing a new Professional Services Automation System. We had our first kick-off meeting this week. This project is going to take a year before going live. I am part of the extended core team, this team consists of project managers, project directors and operations managers. We are taking ownership of requirement, design, and testing of the system. I look forward to using best business/planning practices learned through the Principles of Management course within this implementation.

Welcome To My First Blog

This is my first attempt to blogging.


Motivational Thought:
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
- Alexander Graham Bell