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Strategic Planning

A strategic plan will allow you to focus on the important issues and in the end will allow you to create an important roadmap in a short amount of time.

This can be done by using software or by utilizing a facilitator.

Software

An online planning process is specifically for business owners who:

  • Have less than 50 employees
  • Are looking for a cost effective, self-guided process
  • Don't want to hire a consultant
  • Need to understand the elements of a strategic plan - quickly and efficiently

What are the benefits?

  • You will create your strategic plan efficiently and easily.
  • You will be provided material to complete a strategic plan in 12 integrated steps.
  • You will create a strategic plan that is updatable through our integrated and interactive process.
  • You will have access to a complete set of tools and techniques to develop everything from your mission to your market to measuring your results.
  • You will increase your likelihood of successful implementation of your plan.

Using a facilitator for your strategic planning process.

Many businesses find that they prefer a more tailored and facilitated approach to developing their strategic plans. These businesses elect to have a facilitator run the strategy sessions. To serve these clients' needs, the facilitator offers strategic plan development and implementation programs. They work with you and your key staff to facilitate development sessions that result in an optimally-developed Strategic Plan and implementation programs.

Benefits:

  • You will be guided through a proven strategic planning process in 12 practical steps.
  • You will receive a Strategic Plan that is market driven instead of operationally driven.
  • You will have a Strategic Plan that is integrated with a measurement process tied to a Strategic Scorecard.
  • You will be provided with implementation processes tailored to meet your organization's capabilities, structure, and culture.
  • You will learn best practices to avoid common strategic plan implementation pitfalls.

Key Outputs:

  • Pre-assessment of Staff Members: to include their thoughts in the planning process.
  • Guided Facilitation Sessions: to enable the development of your company's strategic direction.
  • Visual Strategy Map: to communicate the Plan throughout your organization.
  • Scorecard: to monitor and measure the activities of your plan on a monthly basis.
  • Financial Assessment: this will help you make decisions about when to implement certain action items and if your cash outlay will generate the required revenue to meet your financial goals.
  • Monthly Strategy Check-In: email to track your progress.
  • Implementation Action Plan: Owning, supporting and adapting your plan are just as important as the plan itself.
  • Strategic Plan Outline: this allows for easy revision and adaptation of your plan.
  • SWOT and Internal Chart: this analysis is a tool to help produce a good fit between a company's internal core competencies and its external situation.
  • Access for one year to the Web-based Strategic Plan for easy updating and modification of your Plan throughout the year.

mystrategicplan offer software and a choice of facilitators that could help you and your business.

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