The “big picture” of what your doing and where it is going

Helps determine where your going over the next year or more

Vision – Developing a clear understanding of what is your preferred future

Mission – Developing a sound statement about why you exist

Core Values and Beliefs – Describes behaviors and ideas that are important to your organization

Strategic Issues – The issues that create a gap between the ideal and reality

Operational Plans – How are you going to achieve your vision?

Where organization is headed -- Strategic vision and business mission

Action approaches to achieve targeted results -- A comprehensive strategy

Short and long term performance targets -- Strategic and financial objectives

Takes you outside the day-to-day activities of your organization or project and helps give you clarity about what you actually want to achieve and how to go about achieving it rather than a plan of action for day-to-day operations.

Goals-Based

Issues-Based

Organic

Scenario

“Quote”

1. Environmental Analysis: External & Internal

2. Developing a Mission and Vision

3. Setting Primary Strategic Directions & Goals

4. Crafting Strategy and Action Plans for Each Goal

5. Implementing and Executing the Strategy

6. Evaluating Performance

7. Initiating Corrective Adjustments

S Strengths Internal Environment

W Weaknesses O Opportunities

External Environment T Threats

Regardless of whether your organization is future planning for specific products, work, personal or any other area, the SWOT analysis process is the same.

1. Where are we now?

2. Where do we want to go?

3. How do we get there?

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Implementation and execution is an

action-oriented, “make-it-happen”

process involving people management,

developing competencies and

capabilities, budgeting, policy-making,

motivating, culture-building, and

leadership

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