Strategic Business Planning
Plans that are not reviewed regularly can quickly become outdated and out of step with changes in the external environment.
To be effective in an increasingly competitive market place, organisations need to look longer-term and review whether plans should change to be one step ahead of challenges from the outside world.
How effective is your Business Planning process? How often do meetings on strategy get bogged down by short-term operational problems or less important issues?
Is the Business Plan seen as crucial to focusing activity and allocation of resources across the organisation? Or does it seem to have little relevance to what is happening day-to-day? Are groups working to different priorities – resulting in conflict and management time being wasted? Perhaps it’s time to invest in developing the strategic thinking skills of the top team.
Two days of intensive Strategic Business Planning will enable the top team to move forward in the same direction with common understanding and commitment to agreed objectives – ready to motivate their teams.
Key Outcomes
- Understanding the key challenges in the external environment
- Focusing on your source of advantage
- Understanding what new opportunities there may be for growth or change
- Deciding what services you will/will not offer to who (market/customer groups)
- Determining the best strategic opportunities and key actions to achieve success
- Assessing risk and what capabilities the business needs to develop to succeed
- Identifying how to change the way the business plan is managed and reviewed
"An invaluable workshop for the ‘too busy to think’ company. Well worth implementing.” (Managing Director)