What is strategic planning?
Strategic analysis is part of strategic planning
Strategic planning is a process that involves several activities. NCVO Third Sector Foresight focuses on one of them: strategic analysis of the external environment. This is reputed to be the most difficult!
Strategic planning is a journey
Strategic planning can be viewed as a sequence of six different activities with definite start and end points.
Strategic planning is a cycle
Once the final stage of strategic planning has been reached, it's time to think about starting the whole process again. So strategic planning should be a permanent fixture in an organisation's activities.
Read about the six stages of strategic planning.
Last updated at 16:37 Wed 20/Aug/08.
