- 253 pages
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About this book
An exceptional treatise on strategic planning for single-business companies that is at once academically rigorous and uncommonly practical, this book embodies the Association for Strategic Planning's "Think-Plan-Act" rubric. It emphasises the pervasive role of strategic thinking in strategic planning, including searching for better strategies, business models, and opportunities. This includes monitoring changes in the external environment: the firm's industry and competitors, markets, and general environment. The book also provides original and proven techniques to develop viable strategic alternatives, as well as many other useful analytical tools. Unique software enables a full analysis of a firm's financial performance and condition as well as a full strategic analysis, thus integrating everything presented in the book and providing an opportunity to practice doing a strategic analysis. Includes examples of real companies.
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Information
will
show
at
least
one
consistent
pattern
(and
even
clarify
any
confusion
that
might
arise
from
these
definitions
when
considered
together).
It
shows
the
familiar
cycle
of
strategic
planning,
operational
planning,
implementation,
and
evaluation
and
control.
While
the
diagram
shows
these
as
linear
and
sequential
phases,
in
fact
they
are
anything
but.
For
example,
implementation
and
evaluation
and
control
occur
at
the
same
time
as
the
next
round
of
strategic
planning.
While
strategic
planning
is
defined
as
a
process
to
devise
a
strategy
to
achieve
certain
purposes,
it
is
also
designed
to
make
a
number
of
other
strategic
decisions,
such
as
coming
up
with
a
vision
statement,
setting
objectives,
articulating
a
value
proposition,
and
clarifying
its
business
model.
Strategic
analysis
informs
the
strategic-planning
process
in
many
areas
—
and
strategic
thinking
not
only
drives
it,
but
is
also
singularly
responsible
for
the
quality
of
the
strategic
decisions
and
resulting
strategy.
(Again,
strategic
thinking
should
ideally
take
place
year
round,
not
just
at
strategic-planning
time.)
Everything
in
the
diagram
comprises
strategic
management,
the
true
‘‘bailiwick’’
of
the
president
or
CEO
and
the
company’s
board
of
directors.
Defining
Key
Strategic
Terms
17
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Strategic Planning: A Practical Guide for Competitive Success
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I: A Strategic Analysis Model — That Works
- Part II: The Strategic-Planning Process
- Part III: Doing Strategic Planning
- Appendix A. Some Definitions of Strategy
- Appendix B. Guidelines for Using the SAMtw Software
- Appendix C. The Strategic-Planning Process of Cal Poly Pomona’s Computer Information Systems (CIS) Department
- Glossary
- About the author
- Company Index
- Name Index
- Subject Index