strategic plans
Calculated future approaches
Strategic plans are formal documents outlining an organization's long-term goals and the steps to achieve them.
They typically cover three to five years and address mission, vision, priorities, and resource allocation.
The term appears constantly in business and government: The board approved a new strategic plan for growth.
In practice, many strategic plans gather dust after creation.
- SWOT analysisFramework examining advantages and threats
- goal-settingEstablishing intended outcomes
- key performance indicatorsMeasurable values tracking success
- budgetingAllocating funds systematically
- change managementPlanning organizational transitions systematically
blue sky thinking · benchmarking · prioritization · operational efficiency · vision statement · north star · big picture · capital investment · risk assessment · competitive advantage · stakeholder engagement · executive retreat · market positioning · roadmap · boardroom · long-term · objectives · action items
- Future Planninggoals, resolutions, predictions, forecasts, trends
- military recordsmilitary records, service records, after action report, military rosters, military archives
- organizational publicationsnewsletters, brochures, bulletins, annual reports, fact sheets
- war documentspeace treaties, surrender documents, military dispatches, military orders, battle reports
- public administrationadministrative law, government agencies, ministries, local government, county government
- productivityproductivity, checking off, prioritization, finishing, output
strategic planssnap decisions
improvisation · gut reactions · firefighting · crisis management · hasty decisions
strategic plansaimlessness
Lack of direction
drift · directionlessness · winging it · chaos · randomness