Strategic planning

  • Think strategically
  • Agreeing the way forward
  • Assess your organisation
  • Options and choices
  • The strategic plan
  • Implementing the plan
  • Evaluation

    • Strategic planning focuses on longer range objectives and goals and then identifying the best approach for achieving those goals. Strategic plans are typically 3 or 5 years but sometimes more.

    It is a disciplined effort to shape and guide what an organisation is, what it does and why it does it. Strategic planning requires agreeing the way forward, wide-scale information gathering, an exploration of alternatives, and an emphasis on the future impact of present decisions.

    Strategic planning plays a key role in future sustainability as it helps to embed a long-term perspective within the organisation.

    Throughout the section there are useful resources available - case studies, weblinks to further sources of information and various guides to download.