Learn About Strategic Planning "Strategic planning concerns how an organisation makes sense of where it is going, and the path it will adopt to get there (Kaplan and Beinhocker, 2003)"

Strategic Planning

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Strategic Planning Definition

Strategic planning is a disciplined effort to produce fundamental decisions and actions aimed at shaping the nature and direction of an organisation’s activities (Bryson, 1988; Rudd et al., 2008).

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  • Bryson, J. (1988) Strategic Planning for Public and Non-profit Organisations. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco.
  • Drummond, G., Ensor, J. and Ashford, R. (2008) Strategic Marketing: Planning and Control. Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, UK.
  • Dwyer, R. (1997) Strategic Planning: The Concept. Department of Indian Affairs, India.
  • FCAR (2001) Best Practices: Strategic Planning, Foundation for Community Association Research, US.

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