Strategic Planning is a comprehensive new title, offering practical information on how to develop and implement successful, revenue-generating strategies within your business. In addition to this, the book serves to provide ideas and guidance for producing strategic business plans for your company. Strategic Planning explores the thinking surrounding strategy, and explains concepts such as value based management, the strategic environment, strategies to suit products, establishing strategic strength and gaining competitive advantage. This thorough guide then goes on to demonstrate how to implement and evaluate strategy, how to manage your team and how to manage future risks to your business. Including key questions, pro-active workshops, useful tips and further reading, Strategic Planning is an essential guidebook, whether you are looking for advice about factors to consider when putting together a business plan - or whether you are responsible for the overall strategic direction of the business.
In this book, an expert in business strategy shows how to create and evaluate a strategic plan and execute that plan successfully. When it comes to strategic planning, B. Keith Simerson knows from experience what works and what doesn't.
The guide focuses on two major aspects of the planning process: the multitude of factors contributing to an effective strategic planning framework and the multitude of drivers and enablers of successful execution.
In this second edition, author Mark Wallace succinctly points out that if you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.
This text provides a solid theoretical framework, supplemented with examples and a common case, which is reinforced by hands-on practical student exercises and chapter-specific worksheets.
This revised edition includes: new and updated content on planning for both the short and the long-term; crucial information on succession planning; help preparing for the unexpected using scenario planning and agile strategy; strategies ...
If you're looking to navigate expertly through today's unpredictable business climate, this is the one book you simply cannot afford tobe without!
Hill and Coomer surveyed over 100 mayors and city councilmen in the Houston area and found some positive relationships between the attitudes of politicians and long-range public planning. When asked whether they were concerned about ...
This book provides a framework that any library, whether it serves urban, suburban, or rural communities, can use as a basis for its strategic planning.
Leaders can use this book as a precision tool to build capacity, manage change, and focus their efforts to develop dramatically more effective organizations." —Sterling Speirn, President Stupski Foundation, Immediate Past President, W. K. ...
This book is required reading for anyone in an organization who is influenced by the planning or the strategy-making processes.