Borna66
08-11-2012, 02:08 PM
Which of these mistakes are you or your company making? Use these questions and answers you come up with to tailor your strategic planning process to your needs.
1. Failing to integrate planning at all levels
2. keeping planning separate from day - to -day management
3. Conducting long-range forecasting only with extrapolations from the past
4. Having a scattershot approach to strategic planning and strategic change
5. Developing Vision, Mission, and Value statements as fluff with no goals/ measures
6. Having yearly weekend retreats/near term thinking only
7. Failing to complete an effective implementation process/ Yearly/ Change Management cycle
8. Violating the ‘people support what they help create’ premise, especially with inadequate line management involvement
9. Conducting business as usual after strategic planning (SPOTS Syndrome) with a crisis of will-failure to step up and do what you know is right
10. Failing to make the ‘tough choices’ with suppression of differences of opinion
11. Lacking a scoreboard; measuring what’s easy; not what’s important.
12. Failing to define and build 3 year plans for Strategic Business Units, Lines of Business, and Major Departments in a meaningful way.
13. Neglecting to benchmark yourself against the competition.
14. Seeing; he planning document as an end in itself.
15. Having confusing terminology and language with too few planning and change resources.
16. Trying to facilitate the process yourself-being pennywise and pound foolish when it comes to the use of a master consultant and facilitator.
17. Failure to define your unique positioning in the marketplace vs. the competition in the eyes of the customer.
18. Inadequate top management involvement in leading process.
19. Failure to do meaningful and regular environmental scanning during the year.
20. “Tell ’em what they want to hear “/from rather than substance.
1. Failing to integrate planning at all levels
2. keeping planning separate from day - to -day management
3. Conducting long-range forecasting only with extrapolations from the past
4. Having a scattershot approach to strategic planning and strategic change
5. Developing Vision, Mission, and Value statements as fluff with no goals/ measures
6. Having yearly weekend retreats/near term thinking only
7. Failing to complete an effective implementation process/ Yearly/ Change Management cycle
8. Violating the ‘people support what they help create’ premise, especially with inadequate line management involvement
9. Conducting business as usual after strategic planning (SPOTS Syndrome) with a crisis of will-failure to step up and do what you know is right
10. Failing to make the ‘tough choices’ with suppression of differences of opinion
11. Lacking a scoreboard; measuring what’s easy; not what’s important.
12. Failing to define and build 3 year plans for Strategic Business Units, Lines of Business, and Major Departments in a meaningful way.
13. Neglecting to benchmark yourself against the competition.
14. Seeing; he planning document as an end in itself.
15. Having confusing terminology and language with too few planning and change resources.
16. Trying to facilitate the process yourself-being pennywise and pound foolish when it comes to the use of a master consultant and facilitator.
17. Failure to define your unique positioning in the marketplace vs. the competition in the eyes of the customer.
18. Inadequate top management involvement in leading process.
19. Failure to do meaningful and regular environmental scanning during the year.
20. “Tell ’em what they want to hear “/from rather than substance.