一个战略计划和销售计划，将您的营销计划和行动是一个商业计划的实施工作马。 这篇文章上的战略和销售规划过程分为十个部分，它是在一个特定的，搭积木秩序。

潜在的问题和公司目标：一是确定和排名您的潜在问题，在您的公司业务。 您发现的问题和排名的重要性和严重性，你可以制定公司的目标确定的问题领域，以尽量减少和管理，强调公司的强项。

风险分析：当可能发生的问题？ 你能做些什么，以减轻潜在的风险和问题？ 你将如何处理这些问题呢？ 风险分析，着眼于如何你可以把问题转化为机遇，进入下一节parlays。

公司战略，战略战术和程序：一是制定战略，然后有关的战略战术，然后由此产生的战略方案。 战略重点和区分贵公司的关键因素，包括最预计将有助于你的成功。 重要的是贵公司的战略相得益彰，这样你就不会在不同的方向发送您的业务。 用于执行战略和涉及到具体的战略的战略战术。 战略方案的具体日期，职责分配和开发预算的具体业务活动。 程序涉及到的具体战略的具体战术。

销售策略：制定的销售战略，因为它特别涉及到的营销策略。 建立不同的销售方式和渠道。 确定你的销售过程和目标。

销售计划：销售计划，解决您的销售策略将如何实施。 你应该有制度来衡量战略的实施和支持您的销售力度。

战略联盟和合资企业：定义您的梯形联盟和伙伴关系。 发展合作的营销和发展的机会。 识别任何固有的风险。

滚动方式经营预算：经营预算是规划和控制机制，它可以帮助您制定的销售预测。 它应该是一个滚动的基础上，向外为一年，按月格式。 重要的是你的业务预算反映了您的战略规划目标。

销售预测：根据您的销售策略和方案为基础，并考虑你的业务预算，制定一​​个三至五年预计的销售预测。 将使用这种销售预测，制定详细的利润和亏损你的商业计划的声明。 这是非常重要的关联，您的销售预测与市场分析，细分市场，营销策略和销售策略。

里程碑表：提供您公司未来的目标，里程碑和相应的策略，随着您的市场营销和销售计划“卷展栏。

控制机制：每个关键的技能和资源的控制机制是提供给你呢？ 是你的资源和技能所必需的直接所有权或他们可以外包和节约成本？ 这些只是对一些问题的解决时，确定对您的战略计划的资源的控制机制。

战略规划就是这样一个成功的商业运行的重要组成部分，我强烈建议保留一个经验丰富的商业顾问，确保您的战略计划是有效地发展，最重要的是整个公司业务的实施，有效。 您的战略计划实施后，一名经验丰富的业务顾问还可以帮助您确保战略保持轨道上，达到其目标和必要的调整由于市场的变化和不可预见的问题的事件。

弗兰克Goley ABC商务咨询工作，并在制定和实施商业计划，营销计划和战略计划的专家。

在非洲经商并不像你在其他国家看到的，气氛有地震。 虽然它是很可能在非洲投资的利润，一切都将改变由于多方面因素的影响。 您可能会盈利今天，但明天，这是不一样了。 我们谈论的因素是气候，自然灾害，部落战争，等等。 部落战争，虽然这一直是管理，让我们只是有相关的案件，潜伏在周围，毁了你的风险的情况下，可以可能性。 一个企业家可以使用，以帮助这个组织的战略规划是最好的防守。 这是每一个非洲业务有志所需的东西。

非洲企业组织的战略规划是非常必要的。 为什么呢？ 很简单，因为的非洲是不是真的被称为许多投资者的枢纽。 非洲大陆仍然是发展的过程中。 虽然机会已经查获许多像中国，风险仍然存在。 另一件事情是，作为年通过，非洲正在成为许多投资者的战场。 竞争正在变得日益紧张。 独自一人在那里嬉戏，就像是打一场败仗。 您是缺兵少将和无奈。 但咨询业务专家，你会以某种方式创造一个良好的游戏。

定义你的业务战略，方向和决策，有办法，你要忍受整个你的业务活动中可能发生的挑战。 战略规划是对未来收益。 通过政治，经济，环境，社会和经济因素的考虑，将拿出最好的回应大陆范围内的挫折。 虽然不能说什么，将在未来几年的市场，但它至少可以告诉你做时，或而市场是有不一致的变化。 它可以指向你去哪里或应该做些什么。 从这个词本身，战略规划，这是一个良好的学习准备。 它是适用于世界上任何的商业环境。 但关于非洲问题时，，一切都不同的是，机遇与挑战并存。
情景分析是战略规划的一个组织部分。 计划将上浮到每个企业情况的内部，确定的原因和效果的情况下。 这会给你一个时间上的答案，这将阻止您得到后面留下你的竞争对手。 这种分析涉及顾客，竞争，技术，供应商市场，劳动力市场，经济和监管环境等因素。

为了得到一个在非洲的业务市场的好地方，它是必须有一个适当的业务计划。 你不能假设，就像通常是在黑色大陆的市场，这将是最荒谬的，尽管投资者可以想过。 商业机会是正确的，你一定会需要有一个策略来实现这些目标。

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战略计划失败的原因

有为什么的原因是多方面的战略计划的失败，特别是：

• 当公司无法了解客户。
• 顾客的购买背后的动机。
• 该产品的真正潜力。
• 不足或不正确的营销研究
• 失败，预测环境的反应
• 竞争对手的反应和计划。
• 竞争力的品牌。
• 价格战。
• 政府会干预吗？
• 资源能力的高估。
• 的人员，设备和流程处理的新战略。
• 未能开发新的员工和管理技能。
• 未能协调。
• 不足够的报告和控制关系。
• 组织结构不够灵活。
• 未能获得高级管理层的承诺。
• 不从一开始就参与管理。
• 未能获得足够的公司的资源来完成任务。
• 未取得员工的承诺。
• 以及缺乏对员工解释新的战略。
• 给予奖励工人的缺乏拥抱新战略
• 根据估计的时间要求。
• 没有完成的关键路径分析。
• 按照计划失败。
• 没有后续通过后的初步规划。
• 没有对计划的进展情况进行跟踪。
• 以上没有后果。
• 管理变革失败。
• 认识不足，内阻变化。
• 缺乏远见的工艺，技术和组织之间的关系。
• 通讯障碍。
• 缺乏利益相关者之间的信息共享。
• 排除利益相关者和代表。

战略管理的局限性

虽然方向感是很重要的，它也可以杀死的创造力，尤其是如果它是严格执行。 在一个不确定的和模糊的世界，灵活性，可较刚性的战略罗盘重要。 当一个战略内化为企业文化，它可以导致组认为。 它也可能导致一个组织定义过于狭窄。 这样的一个例子是营销近视。

许多战略管理理论，往往要经过只有短暂的普及。 这些理论的总结，因而不可避免地具有生存偏见（本身就是一个战略管理领域的研究）。 许多理论往往要么过于狭窄，重点是建立一个完整的企业战略上，或过于笼统，细节短缺和过于抽象，适用于具体情况。 民粹主义或faddishness可以在一个特定的理论生命周期的影响，并可能会看到在不适当的情况下的应用程序。 经营理念和流行的管理理论，管理理论的一个更关键的。

哈默尔在2000年，是第一个使用长期战略趋同的解释有限的范围大为尴尬的情况下被对手的策略。 他夸张的感叹的战略融合 因为比较成功的实施就像一个模板的企业盲目，所以他们不明白，战略的过程中涉及设计为每种情况的具体的自定义战略。

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战略规划是一个组织的界定其战略或方向，并分配资源来实现这一战略，包括其资本和人民作出决策的过程。 各种业务分析技术可用于在战略规划，包括SWOT分析（优势，劣势，机会和威胁），PEST分析（政治，经济，社会，和技术），转向分析（社会文化，科技，经济，生态和调控因子），并EPISTEL（环境，政治，信息学，社会，科技，经济和法律）。

战略规划是一个组织的未来当然的正式审议。 所有的战略规划涉及至少有三个关键问题之一：

1。 “我们该怎么办？”
2。 “为谁做呢？”
3。 “我们怎样才能练成？”

在企业战略规划中，一些作者的词组为“我们如何才能打败或避免竞争？”的第三个问题。 （Bradford和邓肯，第1页）。 但是，这种方法是如何击败竞争对手比约擅长。

在许多组织中，这是被视为一个确定一个组织打算在明年或的过程 - 更典型 - 3至5年（长期），虽然有些他们的视野扩展到20年。

为了确定它是，该组织需要确切地知道它的立场，然后决定去就是了，以及它将如何到达那里。 由此产生的文件就是所谓的“战略计划”。

这是也是真正的战略规划可能是有效地策划一个公司的方向的工具，然而，战略规划本身不能预言究竟如何市场将演变以及哪些问题将在未来几天内表面计划您的组织策略。 因此，战略创新和摆弄的“战略计划”已成为一个组织生存在动荡的商业气候的基石战略。

远景陈述，使命陈述和价值观
愿景 ：定义一个组织或企业在其根本目标和/或战略方向方面的期望或预期的未来状态。 Vision是一个长远的眼光，有时描述，该组织将在其运作要像世界。 例如与穷人的慈善机构工作，可能有一个愿景声明，上面写着“没有贫困的世界”

使命 ：定义一个组织或一个企业的根本目的，简明扼要地说明为什么它的存在和它做什么，以实现其愿景。

它有时被用来设置一个组织在未来的“图画”。 使命陈述，提供的细节是什么，并回答了这个问题：“我们该怎么办？”例如，慈善机构可能提供“为无家可归者和失业者的就业培训”

价值观 ：是一个组织的利益相关者共同的信念。 价值观驱动器的一个组织的文化和优先事项，并提供一个框架，在作出决定。 例如，“知识与技能是成功的关键”或“给一个人的面包和，他每天饲料，但教他的农场和他对生命的饲料”。 这些示例值可设置超过住房自给自足的优先事项。

战略 ：战略狭义的定义，是指“一般的艺术”（希腊stratigos） 。 两端的组合（目标）公司正在努力和手段（政策），它正在寻求到那里。

组织有时总结成一个使命声明和/或一个愿景的目标和目的。 其他一个愿景和使命，并开始使用它们制定的目标和目的。

虽然存在着一个共同的使命是非常有用的，许多战略专家的问题以书面的使命声明的要求。 不过，也有许多型号的战略规划与使命声明的开始，所以它是有用的，研究他们在这里。

*使命陈述告诉你该组织的根本目的。 它定义了客户和关键流程。 它告诉你所需的性能水平。

*愿景声明概述了该组织希望，或如何，它希望在其运作的是世界。 它集中于未来。 它是灵感的源泉。 它提供了明确的决策标准。

一份声明中的一个优点是，它创造价值为那些得到暴露声明，而这些前景是经理，员工，有时甚至是客户。 语句创建一个方向和机会感。 他们都是战略决策过程中的一个重要组成部分。

许多人错误的使命陈述的视力表，有时简直是一个较长期的版本的其他使用。 远景应说明，为什么它是重要完成任务。 一个愿景，定义广泛存在或业务，并可以保持几十年来，如果制作的好，其目的或目标。 更具体哪些企业可以实现自己的使命陈述。 远景应说明将在更广泛的领域取得了什么，如果该组织和其他成功地实现他们的个人任务。

使命陈述可以像在少数几家公司的愿景声明，但是这可能是一个严重错误。 它可以蛊惑人心。 使命宣言可以激励人民为实现既定目标，即使它们舒展的目标，提供了可以在SMART（具体，可衡量，可实现，相关和有时限的的）条款阐明。 使命陈述提供了一个路径，实现符合自己的价值观的视野。 这些报表上的底线和组织的成功有直接关系。

哪个先？ 使命陈述或愿景声明吗？ 视情况而定。 如果你有一个新的开始创业，新的方案或计划重新设计您当前的服务，然后视力会指导的使命声明和战略计划的其余部分。 如果您所在的使命是建立一个既定的业务，那么多次，任务引导愿景声明和战略计划的其余部分。 无论哪种方式，你需要知道你的根本目的 - 的使命，您的内部资源和能力（长处和/或弱点）和外部条件（机会和/或威胁）当前形势，并在你想要去的 - 对未来的憧憬。 重要的是你从一开始就保持在视线年底或期望的结果。[引证需要]。

一个有效的愿景陈述的功能包括：

*清晰和模糊的不足
*生动清晰的画面
*说明一个光明的未来
*难忘和引人入胜的字眼
*逼真的愿望
*对齐与组织的价值观和文化

To become really effective, an organizational vision statement must (the theory states) become assimilated into the organization's culture. Leaders have the responsibility of communicating the vision regularly, creating narratives that illustrate the vision, acting as role-models by embodying the vision, creating short-term objectives compatible with the vision, and encouraging others to craft their own personal vision compatible with the organization's overall vision. In addition, mission statements need to be subjected to an internal assessment and an external assessment. The internal assessment should focus on how members inside the organization interpret their mission statement. The external assessment — which includes all of the businesses stakeholders — is valuable since it offers a different perspective. These discrepancies between these two assessments can give insight on the organization's mission statement effectiveness.

Another approach to defining Vision and Mission is to pose two questions. Firstly, “What aspirations does the organization have for the world in which it operates and has some influence over?”, and following on from this, “What can (and/or does) the organization do or contribute to fulfill those aspirations?”. The succinct answer to the first question provides the basis of the Vision Statement. The answer to the second question determines the Mission Statement.

Strategic planning outline
The preparatory phase of a business plan relies on planning. The first chapters of a business plan include Analysis of the Current Situation and Marketing Plan Strategy and Objectives.

Analysis of the current situation – past year

* Business trends analysis
* Market analysis
* Competitive analysis
* Market segmentation
* Marketing-mix
* SWOT analysis
* Positioning – analyzing perceptions
* Sources of information

Marketing plan strategy & objectives – next year

* Marketing strategy
* Desired market segmentation
* Desired marketing-mix
* TOWS-based objectives as a result of the SWOT
* Position & perceptual gaps
* Yearly sales forecast

According to Arieu, “there is strategic consistency when the actions of an organisation are consistent with the expectations of management, and these in turn are with the market and the context” (SK Sharman in Human Resource Management: A Strategic Approach to Employment)

Methodologies
There are many approaches to strategic planning but typically a three-step process may be used:

* Situation – evaluate the current situation and how it came about.
* Target – define goals and/or objectives (sometimes called ideal state)
* Path – map a possible route to the goals/objectives

One alternative approach is called Draw-See-Think

* Draw – what is the ideal image or the desired end state?
* See – what is today's situation? What is the gap from ideal and why?
* Think – what specific actions must be taken to close the gap between today's situation and the ideal state?
* Plan – what resources are required to execute the activities?

An alternative to the Draw-See-Think approach is called See-Think-Draw

* See – what is today's situation?
* Think – define goals/objectives
* Draw – map a route to achieving the goals/objectives

In other terms strategic planning can be as follows:

* Vision – Define the vision and set a mission statement with hierarchy of goals and objectives
* SWOT – Analysis conducted according to the desired goals
* Formulate – Formulate actions and processes to be taken to attain these goals
* Implement – Implementation of the agreed upon processes
* Control – Monitor and get feedback from implemented processes to fully control the operation

Situational analysis
When developing strategies, analysis of the organization and its environment as it is at the moment and how it may develop in the future, is important. The analysis has to be executed at an internal level as well as an external level to identify all opportunities and threats of the external environment as well as the strengths and weaknesses of the organizations.

There are several factors to assess in the external situation analysis:

1。 Markets (customers)
2。 比赛
3。 技术
4。 Supplier markets
5。 Labor markets
6。 The economy
7。 The regulatory environment

这是罕见的找到所有的这些因素至关重要的7个。 它也是罕见地发现，​​前两个 - 市场和竞争 - 是至关重要的。 （布拉德福德“外部形势 - 考虑什么？”）

外部环境的分析，通常集中于客户。 管理部门应在制定客户战略有远见，应该做的思考市场环境的变化，如何将这些可能会影响顾客套，这些顾客是否设置该公司希望以服务的。

迈克尔波特提出的竞争环境也进行分析，基于框架的多次。

目的，目标和具体目标
战略规划是一个非常重要的商业活动。 同样重要的是，在公共部门领域，如教育。 它是广泛的非正式和正式实行。 战略规划和决策过程应该结束的方式来实现他们的目标和路线图。

草拟了一项战略计划的核心目标之一是发展的方式，很容易转化为行动计划的翻译。 最具战略意义的计划，解决了高一级的举措和总体目标，但没有得到挂接到日常的日常项目和任务，将需要实现的计划（译） 。 术语或词的选择，以及作为一个计划是书面的水平，简便的方法，在翻译的方式您的战略计划的失败，是有道理的，是可执行文件，以他人的两个例子。 通常情况下，这些计划都充满了不配合预期开展的计划的工作人员每天的日常现实的概念术语。

下列术语已被用于战略规划：理想的最终状态，计划，政策，目标，目标，战略，战术和行动。 的定义有所不同，重叠和无法实现清晰。 这些概念的最常见的是具体的，有时限的报表预期的未来结果和一般打算未来的结果，多数车型是指任一目标或目标（有时可以互换）继续陈述。

组织目标的一个模型采用层次结构。 以上所列物项可能的手段和目的的层次结构组织和编号如下：排名目的（TRO），排名第二目标，排名第三的目的，从任何排名，在较低职级的问题的答案的目标“怎么了？”，并在较高职级的问题的答案的目标：“为什么？”唯一的例外是排名的目的（TRO）：“为什么？”的问题没有回答。 这是如何定义的禁制令。

在同一时间，人们通常有几个目标。 “目标叠合”是指以目标相互结合如何做好。 一个出现兼容的目标乙是否目标？ 将它们组合在一起形成一个统一的战略？ “目标层次”包括嵌套的其他目标（S）内的一个或多个目标。

一种方法建议有短期目标，中期目标和长期目标。 在此模型中，人们可以预期相当容易达到短期目标：，他们的触角略高于立场。 在另一个极端，出现长期目标非常困难，几乎不可能实现。 在这种情况下，战略管理术语有时指的是“大胆大包天的目标”（胆大包天的目标）。 作为一个踏脚石下一个目标，涉及的目标测序。 一个人或集团开始通过实现简单的短期目标，然后步骤，中期，长期目标。 目标测序可以创建一个“的目标楼梯”。 在组织设置，组织可以共同协调的目标，使他们不与对方发生冲突。 组织的目标应与该组织的其他部分的网状兼容。

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If we (Performance Solutions Technology ) were consulting with you today, and looking at your Strategic Plan, we would be emphasizing three important constructs that dramatically improve the ability of your Strategic Plan to deliver business results. They take it from being a plan, to something you can put into place and execute… all year long. Let's go over what we emphasize:

1. The Strategic Plan is about “must have” growth – nothing else. Bottom line, all of your strategic goals should be about growth, example: growing sales, growing people's effectiveness, growing internal efficiencies. Growth is what we are after; not mission statements, not organizational philosophy, not politically correct statements (to insure every group has a line item in the Strategic Plan) – just growth. And not just any growth. Not just nice-to-have growth, “wouldn't it be nice/good/we really should” growth – you want to keep your Strategic Plan very lean and mean, and limit it to just the areas of growth that will power the business forward. Be thinking in terms of the opportunities given your strengths and the market landscape that are mandatory for the growth of the business.
2. Aside from tracking financial returns as part of your strategic plan, every goal has to have a plan, represented as initiatives. Every i nitiative supporting a growth goal has to stand two tests. If your strategic goals and initiatives don't link to goals and projects in your business operations, they will typically be under-supported in the day-to-day work process and shouldn't be in your Strategic Plan. This is our working definition for alignment. But what about those tests ? 1。 The first test we use when looking at initiatives is – “Do they represent a compelling plan for achieving the strategic goal?” They should represent a believe-able, testable, sequence for achieving the strategic objective while minimizing risk of lost time, missed opportunities and incorrect use of resources. Initiatives represent your game plan. How good to you want your plan to be?2. The second initiative test is embraced by the following question, “Is that (initiative) really required to reach the strategic goal?” If the initiative is not critical to reaching your strategic goal, don't keep it in your plan. Keep your plan light and focused, you want to carry and drive this through-out the year. Sacrifice or trade comprehensive descriptions for targeted, punchy sentence stubs.

注：所有非关键性的措施，应在您的操作部分，而不是您的战略计划。 不要填写与您的战​​略计划，多层次的举措，许多如果不是大多数，其中，应根据您的业务领域在不同的业务，产品和服务举措，在战略管理ManagePro这样的软件工具的项目代表。

1. 如果不测量目标，它不属于你的战略计划，如果你还没有想出一种有意义的方式来衡量每一个战略目标，并支持主动 -它不属于你的计划。 如果你不跟踪通过你的记分卡 ，不保留它。 另一种方式说，如果它不值得花时间来衡量和跟踪，它不属于您的战略计划。 就这么简单。 无论是或不是一个战略目标，是衡量和跟踪是一个最佳的预测你将通过一年的实际执行。

结论：要构建一项战略计划，才能真正使您的整个组织，重点放在三个领域：

1， 确保战略计划重点是只生长

2， 每一个战略目标，必须有一个倡议的行动计划

3， 无论是值得包括，是值得的测量-定期

本系列的作者，罗德尼边缘，是性能的解决方案技术（PST）的首席执行官。 科普助攻部署绩效管理软件解决方案的开发和组织，并提出我们的工作为基础这些准则与1 ，000的公司 ，以帮助确保您成功的战略和绩效管理的追求。 性能解决方案技术是在网上找到了在http://www.PerformanceSolutionsTech.com

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对于企业的战略规划是一个概念，一个思维定势，也是一个过程。 它是俯视周围的弯曲的道路。 当每个人都在你的地方是什么你都承认它，利用它在时间上的重点。

如往年一样出现在地平线上，你们每个人都会问这个问题，从您的各种不同的角度很重要。 您将能够清晰可预见的未来可能性的重要元素，这样你就可以全部精力放在所提供的可能性。 业务的目标，毕竟是来帮助你们每个人，让你梦想成真。

战略规划保持重点上的选项，你现在更清楚地看到，所以你可以集体做出的选择，有利于本公司所有的人参与。

在这篇简短的文章中，我将描述一个企业战略计划的五个关键要素。 据我的经验，当这三个要素组合成一个简单的直接自己动手制作过程中您的公司将实现其目标。 这不是火箭科学，除非您正在构建的火箭，将作为一个尽可能多的人几个人的公司工作，你在船上有你的公司。

您的战略规划小组：
战略规划的工作​​簿，课本，以及如何书籍，所有讨论的战略规划团队的重要性 - 言下之意，该公司必须足够大，有每一级的领导人，谁就能成为的战略规划小组的一部分。 不幸的是，消除了存在的所有公司的大约75％。

这是否包括你不要害怕，因为我向您展示如何你可以接触到最优秀的人才，其输入不同的角度，将帮助您创建一个平衡的战略的个人。 此外，这些成功的人会帮助你开发和维护长途可行的战略。 因为他们不会为他们的输入充电，你将永远能够负担得起一个积极的战略规划小组。

我建议你​​与你的行业的贸易协会的成员，企业主，其结果已经过时间和他们的意见，您信任的证明连接。 众所周知组动态电源建议您限制您的战略规划组6-8人，包括自己在内的大小。

你们每个人也应该位于外彼此的传统营销领域。 如果你们中的一些已接近退休的丰富经验，人在其职业生涯中不断增长自己的公司和有些人是在你的行业成功企业的接班人，你将有一个多样性的重要。 大约有一段时间被那些可以看到的东西，未来是看不见的那些刚刚起步的，反之亦然。

The Strategic Planning Process:
The strategic planning process should be simple, just three questions to focus on, so you will keep them at the top of your mind. Naturally there are multiple components of these three questions that will become second nature as the process of discussion moves along.

What are you going to sell in the future and how? Each member of your strategic planning team will offer different ideas based on what's working for them now, what they have already considered for the future and their perspective (such as their Internet savvy or lack of same).

Who are your target customers and why? Every successful business owner focuses on their market share inside their traditional market. With different perspectives you will be able to expand that traditional marketing area AND focus on increasing your share of each customer. Members of your strategic planning team will open your mind to tactics they are using to sell more products of one kind or another to your existing core customers.

How can you differentiate your company vs your competitors? This often means discontinuing lines no longer profitable that you're still carrying because you've always carried them. It may mean focusing on fewer products and services where your specific capabilities excel . And it most assuredly will mean introducing new products and services recommended by your strategic planning team based on their experiences and perspectives.

Once you and your team have these three questions at the forefront – the qualifiers become automatic. What's important? What is it now? What exactly do you want it to be? And what's possible to achieve at the intersection of your goals and your resources?

A Commitment To Action:
With the continual input from your strategic planning peer group you will be able to more easily target strategic opportunities all around you. Opportunities that would have continued to be invisible to you without their well considered input. These actions will, in and of themselves help you choose those capabilities important for your future growth and enhance your capacities for making the most of them.

As you and the other members of your strategic planning peer group put your plans on paper and keep them in front of each other you will develop an environment for continually review and modify your evolving mission statements.

Continually articulating your goals for the future as they are continually refined by your strategic planning peer group will keep the important next steps always in view. Taking action yourself or delegating it to the individuals or teams within your organization who have the power, authority, and accountability for their completion is all that now stands between where things are today and where you want them to be in the future.

If you are seriously interested in your organization's future you'll find that there's really no better way to create and manage your strategic planning process .

作者简介

Your next move should be to click below and take five minutes to review my recently published report that contains complete instructions for your Do-It-Yourself Strategic Planning process at http://www.DIYStrategicPlanning.com Article by Wayne Messick, publisher of http://www.iBizResources.com

Strategic planning , as applied to Six Sigma, implies that the drawing down of elaborate and systematic planning of areas of concerns that have far-reaching and tactical implications at the project selection stage. The purpose of strategic planning is to have produced fundamental decisions and actions that guide successful Six Sigma implementation.

An Overview Of Strategic Six Sigma

Many CEOs are skeptical about the outcome of Six Sigma, despite huge annual spending. A critical component which helps integrate the visions of the leader with the functioning of the organization is strategic programming derived from “strategy deployment mapping”. This is said to produce an entirely new direction for the organization. The skepticism about the vision of building a future begins to gain momentum with the linking of visions to action plans and when it delivers tangible results. Six Sigma takes strategic planning to a different plane of thinking by delivering on this promise.

Success Begins With Planning

It should not be forgotten that the foundation for success is proper and adequate planning. Planning is the elaborate statement of vision by the leader of the company. This is true for both large corporations and smaller start-ups. The core of transforming organizational vision into tangible gains by employees has many steps to overcome obstacles on the path to achievement. Achievements will have to be translated to customer satisfaction for Six Sigma to be successful.

Sharing Of Vision

The vision which begins its journey with upper management needs to be shared by all the stakeholders. It may be difficult to demonstrate to employees that their actions relate to customer reactions directly. Another missing link that needs to be connected is the customer himself. The emphasis of Six Sigma is on factoring in customers & engaging them in defining needs. Deploying employees actively connects these disjointed needs. The powerful tools of Six Sigma highlight and simplifies the linkage between key elements, activities, strategies and finally the vision, paving way for smooth sharing of ideas. The methodology of Six Sigma communicates company vision effectively to all concerned in a language understandable by each of them.

临界质量

There is also a danger of leaders getting bogged down by trivial matters of day-to-day operations and numerous details. Two of the tools of Six Sigma (metrics), key requirements and differentiators, come to the rescue. These two metrics highlight the importance or irrelevance of some data and push for excellence on those that matter. The end result is helping leaders to envision the strategic importance of activities and steering clear of trivial, mundane things.

Deployment of Six Sigma can't be disconnected from strategic planning and financial activities, either. If the decision to implement Six Sigma is a result of strategic planning, it means the leadership has recognized the need for complete retooling of the organization, no matter what phase it is in.

作者简介：
Tony Jacowski is a quality analyst for The MBA Journal. Aveta Solution's Six Sigma Online offers online six sigma training and certification classes for lean six sigma, black belts, green belts, and yellow belts.

To be up there with the best strategic thinkers, you need to use the left and right sides of your brain, a skill which takes practice as well as confidence. Having the logic and creative sides to your skillset are of immense value.

Here are some skills that the very best strategic thinkers have, and use, every day.

They Have a Vision

They are great at both thinking with a strategic purpose as well as creating a Visioning process. They have both tools in their kit and they use both to complement each other. This form of supportive thinking and seeing the future, creates a way of thinking and evolving strategy that is focused and yet broad.

Make Time

In a busy businesses and organisations, be they small or large, making the time is vital. At the top of their game key strategic thinkers take time out. Maybe a retreat (maximum points!); maybe a day in a hotel foyer; maybe an afternoon somewhere/anywhere, with a blank sheet and a thinking hat on. Whatever works for them – but they do it.

Are Not Hasty

The clue is in the description, Strategic Thinking is not about today, tomorrow or next week. In close partnership with holding a clear vision for the business future, these two create the tomorrows of the future. But not tomorrow! This is shaping, coaxing, tuning for a quality business performance in the years to come. Great exponents take time to fine tune, revise and engineer quality futures!

Absorb and Notice

They are truly aware. In any business, there are clues, often subtle, both internal and external, to help guide future direction and realize opportunities. Great Strategic Thinkers take all of this in, so that as they set aside time to think, they have a full deck of information to guide them. Sometimes, it's an 'aha' moment on vacation, when they observe something that resonates; it might be on a morning walk out in the country; it might be what someone says as they serve them coffee. Making links, however tenuous, is what makes this work so well.

Review Often

The best Strategic Thinkers check that their thinking has been validated. Is it going to work, against a world of regular, consistent and yet sometimes volatile change? This activity is a moving target, so to build a better understanding, snapshots; benchmarks and regular stocktaking are all very useful to confirm the quality of the thinking – and absorbed into the skillset for their and their organizations future.

Learn from Experience

Over time, these folk use their experiences, small and large, to think better on strategic issues. This makes their use of this time really efficient and particularly effective. There are learned short-cuts to the perhaps more formalized strategic planning process and experience is a huge, valuable added bonus.

Use a Team

By utilising more than just their own brain (though this is vital for some of the process!), those great at Strategic Thinking bounce ideas off others in the workplace and encourage their input above and beyond their delivery of the day job. The old adage that 1+1=3 in the input of thinking is hugely valid. And 5 people make a much more significant contribution than 2 – and so on!

Realism Rules (A Little!)

Although they create ideas very openly, key strategic thinkers have a sense of realism and honesty about what is achievable in the longer term. This is not to hold them back; more it is to deliver success. They underpromise and overdeliver, whilst also ensuring that the day to day business of the organization – the 'now' – is served adequately too. That's what gets the business paid today, whilst building the future of tomorrow.

Have Clear Milestones

By creating checks in their thinking, to review progress, they have the opportunity to tweak. They have an innate ability to spot the twists and turns necessary. A 5,000 mile journey by a jet plane reaches the destination only by regular and consistent course checks and adjustments.

Are Non-Judgemental

Because the route to a successful future is not bounded by judging their, or others, thinking as they get creative – that is for elsewhere – better ideas flow. Open minds are encouraged and the detail tested later. Open minded thinking needs real checks and balances – but AFTER the openness has stimulated the breadth of imaginative ideas only such freedom can provide.

In the most successful organizations over the years and decades, where the test of time has shown them the excellent businesses they are, the Sony's, Coca Colas, Nokias and Toyotas of this world think ahead and encourage great Strategic Thinking at least somewhere in their busness plans.

In a cut-throat today world of this year's bonus and dividend, big business has a tendency to look short-term and manage that efficiently and well. A sustainable future needs more, whatever size your business is.

Planning tells you what is going to happen, post-mortem tells you what has happened Both planning and post-mortem are essential management tools needed to achieve corporate objectives, as well as to prevent the recurrence of the same mistakes. Planning for change must be the ever-present concern of every executive. At the same time, if events do not happen as planned, a post mortem is to be conducted so as not to repeat the same planning errors.

General Dwight D Eisenhower's famous quote, “Planning is nothing and planning is everything” was a response to his cynical colleagues, who believed that, because plans never survive first contact with the enemy, planning was a waste of time. In the corporate world, quite often, strategic planning gets thrown out of the window because of mounting short-term pressures to perform and deliver the bottom line.

Those who fail to plan are ultimately planning for a post-mortem. It is not that postmortem is unimportant but companies should always plan to succeed and minimize the occasions to do post-mortem on failed projects. Planning companies outperform those non-planning ones.

Crises and the unexpected changes are no longer a rare, random or abnormal part of our lives. They are built into the very fabric of society and modern-day corporations . While not all crises can be foreseen or even prevented, all of them can be managed if we plan strategically and tactically for what is humanly possible. The impacts of the crises can be minimised if one has a thorough understanding of the basics of crisis planning and management.

Tactical is short term planning whereas strategic is considered long term. Strategic plan looks at the forces in the external environment and responses to them. Tactical planning usually covers one year and is the stepping stone of the strategic plan, which normally covers three to five years.

Having post-implementation analysis or post-mortem is also critical. Just as a postmortem reveals the cause of death, a corporate post-mortem can be extremely revealing. You learn from your past mistakes and get all the feedback. It functions much like a resurrection experience, enabling you to have a new lease of life or second chance. In physical term it is reflection. Without this, the same mistakes may be made all over again and lessons learnt earlier will come to waste. This is why there is a saying that history repeats itself. Two world wars were fought within a short span of less than 30 years. Empires and dynasties fall and rise because of a lack of reflection and committing the very same mistakes that ushered them into power in the first place.

Post-mortem job is dull and boring particularly when it is preceded by overwhelming success. But it is also from reflecting upon your successes that one can avoid the pitfalls of failures in the future. Good managers always find out what has gone awry not so much to apportion blame, but to ensure that the same problems do not surface again. This is why some companies conduct exit interviews with departing staff to ascertain if there are more issues than meet the eye. Even chaos has its patterns. The post-mortem is the process to ascertain the patterns of things that have gone wrong so that these mistakes will not be repeated in the future. In the past, three strikes and you are out.

Today, one strike and you are history. This is because today's world is highly competitive and you may not have a second chance. Through one mistake, miscalculation or strategic error, your competitors can steal away your customers very quickly. Your margins for errors are very thin as resources are scarce. This amplifies the importance of post-mortem to minimise repeating the mistakes

Dr Mike Teng (DBA, MBA, BEng) is the author of best-selling book, “Corporate Turnaround: Nursing a Sick Company back to Health.” He is known as the “Turnaround CEO in Asia” by the media.
http://corporateturnaroundexpert.com