How To Get Things Done: A Guide To Strategic Planning
A step-by-step program for creating a strategic plan and tactical plan guaranteed to help you get more of what you want done.
You are pursuing a strategy en route to your vision. Whether it is revolutionary or evolutionary, it does not matter. You are on the road, committedly driving your business in a direction of your own choosing. The important thing is that you have, in fact, chosen this course.
And, once you have made this choice, how are you going to realize this strategy? The answer is just like the answer to “How do you climb Mount Everest?” One step at a time. The way you realize your strategy is one step at a time – the trick, of course, is to know what steps to take, and in what order to take them. This article details an approach to developing a strategic and tactical plan.
Completing the past
The first step in creating a strategic plan is to review and complete the previous past period. For the balance of this article, we will refer to that period as a year, although your planning horizon may be either longer or shorter. You complete the past for two reasons...