Which of these strategic planning challenges does your team face?
- Informal process that lacks consistency
- Doesn’t generate any impactful innovative ideas
- Too many templates and no new thinking
- Results in the same tactics year after year
- Not creating growth or competitive advantage
- Failing to solve key business issues
If you’re ready to improve your strategic planning, we can help.
The Strategic Thinking Institute has facilitated the strategy development process for companies ranging from $30 million to $30 billion in revenue to help them create clear, concise plans that truly drive the business.
What Is Strategic Planning?
Strategic planning is the deliberate process of turning fresh insights about your market, customers, competitors, and company into a clear, actionable road map that sets direction, builds focus, and creates superior value.
It begins with strategic thinking — generating innovative ideas, challenging assumptions, and shaking up the status quo — and then channels those insights into a concise plan that delivers:
- Clarity — Turns chaos into direction
- Alignment — Unites teams around shared goals
- Confidence — Builds trust in leadership and strategy
- Agility — Keeps priorities sharp and plans relevant
- Execution — Makes strategy actionable every day
How Effective Is Your Strategic Planning?
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The Strategic Planning Process
We can move through the strategy development process in anywhere from 3 days to 3 weeks based on your needs.
Complete the strategy development process with your leadership team or work individually with Strategic Thinking Institute CEO, Rich Horwath one-on-one to develop a clear and concise 2-page strategic action plan that leads to profitable growth and competitive advantage. You’ll gain a new process, new tools, and new knowledge that you can use to drive your business for years to come.
- Designate the team
- Select the process
- Collect intelligence on market, customers, competitors and the company
- Complete the Strategy Survey
- Educate the strategy team
- Schedule strategic thinking session.
- Develop the workshop flow.
- Identify the strategic thinking models.
- Lead the workshop.
- Post-workshop review of models.
- Identify the strategic plan format.
- Transform insights into the plan.
- Develop visuals to communicate the plan.
- Review the plan with leadership.
- Modify the plan.
- Create rollout plan.
- Secure the necessary resources.
- Assign accountability for initiatives.
- Communicate the plan.
- Monitor strategy with metrics.
- Schedule strategy tune-up sessions.
- Determine the agenda.
- Update strategic plan weekly.
- Conduct strategy tune-up sessions.
- Monitor the process.
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