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Strategic and corporate planning helps organisations determine where they want to go over the next year or more and how they plan to get there. Typically, the process is organisation-wide, or focused on a major function or division.
Our approach normally includes the following stages:
- Strategic Analysis
This activity can include conducting some sort of scan, or review, of the organisation's environment (for example, of the political, social, economic and technical environment). We consider various driving forces in the environment, for example such as increasing competition and changing demographics
- Setting Strategic Direction
We help the organisation come to conclusions about what needs to be done as a result of the major issues and opportunities being faced. We help with the development of vision, mission and value statements.
- Action Planning
Action planning often includes specifying objectives, or specific results, for each strategic goal. It also includes specifying strategies, tactics, responsibilities and timelines. It includes methods to monitor and evaluate the plan and set corrective action as appropriate.
The role of an independent, external facilitator is a value-added component of this process. We have provided this facilitation role to several organisations in the public and private sectors.
Some of the unique features of our approach are:
- We research all the issues prior to commencing the process and conduct interviews with key stakeholders
- We exercise a range of creative techniques to make the facilitation role positive and valuable
- We can summarise all the outputs and present them to the client as a working document
- We can advise on performance expectations for the organisation as a whole and for individuals over the next 12 months
- We can provide a follow up and monitoring service over the 12 month period
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