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Strategic Planning

Strategic planning is a process where an organization defines its long-term direction by setting goals, prioritizing efforts, allocating resources, and identifying strategies to achieve a desired future state.

A Strategic Plan is a roadmap for the company's overall vision and mission, considering both internal strengths and weaknesses and external opportunities and threats within the market.

Key points about strategic planning:

  • Future-focused: It looks ahead to anticipate trends and challenges to make informed decisions about the organization's direction.

  • Vision-driven: A strategic plan is built around a clear vision of where the organization wants to be in the future.

  • Decision-making framework: It provides a structured approach to allocating resources and making choices that align with the overall strategy.

  • Alignment across levels: Strategic planning ensures that all levels of the organization are working towards common goals.

Key elements of a strategic plan:

  • Mission statement: Defines the organization's purpose and reason for existence.

  • Vision statement: Describes the ideal future state of the organization.

  • SWOT analysis: Identifies internal strengths and weaknesses, and external opportunities and threats.

  • Strategic objectives: Specific, measurable goals that contribute to the overall vision.

  • Action plans: Detailed steps outlining how to achieve each objective.

The Transformative Benefits

Creating a Strategic Plan provides several benefits for an organization, including:

  • Increased focus and clarity of purpose.

  • Improved decision-making.

  • Better resource allocation.

  • Enhanced operational efficiency.

  • Proactive approach to challenges.

  • Competitive advantage by anticipating market trends.

  • Improved board, staff, and volunteer morale and alignment.

  • Greater likelihood of achieving organizational goals by providing a roadmap to follow.

Strategic Planning To Fit Your Needs

Bison Scout will lead your organization through the strategic planning process, engage your thought leaders, and unify disparate stakeholders to align with common goals. Together, we will create a Strategic Plan that charts a course to achieving the organization’s goals.