Strategic Planning - For Richer, For Poorer - The enormous energy that companies put into downsizing, business reengineering and total quality management has been exhausted, for good or ill.
Publisher: CIO Magazine     Author: Miryam Williamson   

Strategic Planning Emphasis and Planning Satisfaction in Small Firms - an Empirical Investigation - This study takes an alternative perspective, examining two dimensions of executive satisfaction with strategic planning.
Publisher: The Journal of Business Strategies     Author: Javad Kargar ; John A. Parnell   

Strategic Planning for the Growing Business - Strategic planning is not just for big business. Learn to effectively match your business' strengths to available opportunities by developing a clear mission statement, goals and objectives.
Publisher: U.S. Small Business Administration     Author: Scott R. Safranski, Ik-Whan Kwon   

Strategic Planning Smothers Innovation - Effective planning is a critical success factor. But the focus and type of planning is what's critical.
Publisher: ManagerWise.com     Author: Jim Clemmer   

Strategic Planning Smothers Innovation - Strategy is an interactive process focusing on improvement and implementation, but beware of common strategic planning traps.
Publisher: The Clemmer Group     Author: Jim Clemmer   

Strategy Is For The Young - At Siemens Nixdorf, Europe's largest computer company, fast trackers mentor top management on technologies and markets of the future.
Publisher: Fast Company     Author: Kate A. Kane   

Successful Business Planning - With few exceptions, business plans tend to change little from year to year. Minor modifications here and there usually are sufficient to do the job. Your market is the same and your customers are the same. So why change your plan? Here are two possible reasons why.
Publisher: The Small Business Journal     Author: Daniel McGilvery   

Support Strategy with Commitments - Strategy is more than just good ideas. You actually have to do something in order to bring about some results.
Publisher: Compass Points     Author: Robert W. Bradford and J. Peter Duncan   

SWOT Analysis - Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats - When conducting strategic planning for any company - online and/or offline - it is useful to complete an analysis that takes into account not only your own business, but your competitor's businesses and the current business environment as well. A SWOT is one such analysis.
Publisher: Power HomeBiz Guides     Author: Bobette Kyle   

The Courage To Have A Strategy - The single biggest barrier to implementing strategy is courage. Many professionals (and professional firms) lack the guts to stick with the plans and goals they have set for themselves.
Publisher: DavidMaister.com     Author: David Maister