Strategic Planning Process
STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS FEEDBACK 02-14-22
1) Describes strategic planning theory and explains its importance to the strategic planning process. NOT YET MASTERED!!!!!
You are off to a good start here, Walter, but you have not yet adequately described the core concepts needed such as strategic planning theory and its importance to the strategic planning process. Please expand this element of your presentation.
You may find these resources in our project to be helpful to you. • Considerations and Next Steps in the Strategic Planning Process • Strategic Planning for Nonprofit Organizations: A Practical Guide and Workbook, chapters 1 and 8 • Theory of Strategic Planning • Principles of Management, sections 5.1, and 5.2
It may help in this process to address these leading questions. • What is the core goal that drives the strategic planning process? • What are the differences between the strategic planning process and the strategic plan? • What are the core steps in the strategic planning process? • What are the important differences between strategic plans and tactical plans? • What is strategic planning theory and how does it play a key role in the strategic planning process?
2) Explains how strategic planning theory informs the strategic planning process and influences the choices made by organizations. NOT YET MASTERED!!!!!
Although this presentation includes several strengths, Walter, you have not yet sufficiently explained how strategic planning theory informs the strategic planning process. Please add a brief description of the core principles and how the strategic planning theory works in conjunction with the process.
You may find these resources in our project to be helpful to you. • Theory of Strategic Planning • Principles of Management, sections 5.1 and 5.2
It may help in this process to address these leading questions. • What are the core principles that guide the several steps in strategic planning? • Which leads and which follows – mission, vision or plan? Why? • How does strategic planning theory shape the strategic planning process in helping CAVU Innovations make good choices for the future?
3) Identifies the components that should be included in a strategic planning framework. NOT YET MASTERED!!!!
You have not yet identified the components that should be included in a strategic planning framework, Walter. Please do so. Please list the critical steps in strategic planning and explain how these steps work to provide a framework for strategic decision making.
You may find these resources in our project to be helpful to you. • Frameworks and Models of Strategic Planning • 8 Strategic Planning Models to Consider • Process of Strategic Planning • Principles of Management, sections 5.1 and 5.2
It will help here to address these leading questions. • What do our experts (such as the authors of our resources) cite as the critical steps in the strategic planning process? • Why are each of the components in the strategic planning framework important? • Which steps need to be sequential, and which do not?
4) Discusses the importance of completing a thorough evaluation of existing frameworks to assess whether or not they meet the needs of the organization. NOT YET MASTERED!!!!!
This element still needs a little more work, Walter. You have not yet adequately explained the importance of completing a thorough evaluation of existing frameworks (to assess whether or not they meet the needs of the organization). Please explain why it is so important that CAVU evaluates frameworks of strategic planning for company fit.
You may find these resources in our project to be helpful to you. • Frameworks and Models of Strategic Planning • 8 Strategic Planning Models to Consider • Theory of Strategic Planning • Principles of Management, sections 5.1 and 5.2
It will help in this process to address these leading questions. • What are strategic planning frameworks and why are they important? • On what sort of information is the strategic planning process grounded? • Do the strategic planning processes consider past, present or future forces? Why? • Why is it important to evaluate a strategic planning framework to determine fit for CAVU Innovations?
5) Assesses a strategic planning framework’s phases/attributes, benefits and weaknesses, alignment to strategic planning theory, and ability to meet organizational needs and identifies strategies for overcoming areas of weakness. NOT YET MASTERED!!!!!
This presentation has several positive features, Walter, but you have not yet explained how to assess a strategic planning framework’s attributes (features, strengths and weaknesses) and its ability to meet an organization’s needs such as identifying strategies for overcoming areas of weakness. Please expand this element and include assessment of fit for CAVU Innovations’ mission.
You may find these resources in our project to be helpful to you. • 8 Strategic Planning Models to Consider • Principles of Management, sections 5.1 and 5.2 • Frameworks and Models of Strategic Planning • Theory of Strategic Planning
It may help you in this process to address these leading questions. • Which core pieces (or phases or attributes) of the strategic planning framework do you think are most important? Why is that? • How does one choose the best strategic planning framework for a specific organization? • How should the organization’s weaknesses or strengths guide this decision?
6) Discusses any important internal and/or external considerations that need to be taken into account when moving forward with the strategic planning process. NOT YET MASTERED!!!!!
You have not yet explained the important internal and/or external considerations that need to be considered when moving forward with the strategic planning process, Walter. Please do.
Please add at least one internal and one external consideration that organizations need to examine before starting the strategic planning process. Include a brief explanation of why those considerations are important and include at least two things the company needs in order to move forward with the strategic planning process.
You may find these resources in our project to be helpful to you. • Comprehensive Strategic Management: A Guide for Students, Insight for Managers, The Process; Chapters 3 and 6. • Theory of Strategic Planning
It may help in this process to address these leading questions. • What types of primary considerations do organizations need to think through when moving into the strategic planning process? Why are these important? • Which specific sorts of data need to be gathered early in the strategic planning process?
7) Explains the next steps in the process after selecting a strategic planning framework. NOT YET MASTERED!!!!!
Although you have addressed several elements of the strategic planning process, Walter, you have not yet explained the next steps in the process – the steps that come after selecting a strategic planning framework. Please prepare an explanation that includes steps that CAVU Innovations should take after they choose a strategic planning framework. This explanation should include at least three steps CAVU Innovations should take in this process.
You may find these resources in our project to be helpful to you. • Considerations and Next Steps in the Strategic Planning Process • Strategic Planning for Nonprofit Organizations: A Practical Guide and Workbook, Chapter 8 • Rigorous Self-Examination Key to Writing Successful Strategic Plan • Mastering Strategic Management, Section 1.2
It may help in this process to address these leading questions. • What are the first two or three steps in any strategic planning process? Why is that so? • What are the steps in the strategic planning process you have selected? • Why is it important to follow those steps and that sequence? • What is the last step in the strategic planning process you have chosen? Why is it last?
8) Clearly conveys meaning with correct grammar, sentence structure, and spelling; shows understanding of audience and purpose. NOT YET MASTERED!!!!!
When it comes to your writing, I would like to draw your attention to three issues.
First. Your writing clear in many areas, Walter, but it is also confusing in too many places because of grammar, word choice and punctuation errors. Please edit and correct this deliverable, one extra time and slowly, before you resubmit it.
Second. You have not used the correct voice across this presentation. Here is what I mean. In this project, you are asked to prepare a presentation for new employees in your planning department. When speaking to new employees, you would not say “CAVU Innovations has added new personnel to their strategic department to supplement their workforce, which necessitates a shift in teaching the newly hired staff to understand the current state of the strategic plan as well as how they should prepare for future strategic plans” as you did in slide number two. In other words, stay in the role of orienting new employees, your own new employees.
Third. As you edit this presentation, please be very careful to place all quotations in quotation marks with appropriate in-text citations.
You should also consider using a free grammar checking service such as Grammarly. (You can get it free at https://app.grammarly.com/) . This helpful tool detects specific grammar, spelling, punctuation, word choice, and style mistakes in your writing and provides suggested revisions to fix those errors. Many of us use it and find it very helpful. Very.
9) Lists sources where needed using citation methods with no major errors. NOT YET MASTERED!!!!!
You wrote some of this using your own good ideas, Walter, and that was a nice approach. You also used some of the concepts from some of our resources. That was correct too. But you did not follow appropriate attribution (citation style).
First. Proper attribution comes in two parts, in-text citations and a reference list. You are off to a good start with your reference list, but you have not cited all of those sources in-text. Every source cited in the reference list needs to have been cited in-text. The sole purpose of the reference list is simply to show the complete citation of all sources cited in-text. Nothing more and nothing less. We call this alignment.
Second. You have not provided attribution for the interesting ideas, authors, and frameworks you mentioned. For example, this is most conspicuous in slide 12, 13 and 14. Please add in-text citations where needed and, of course, the corresponding reference list citations.
You will find some excellent help with citations in our project resources. On the main page of this competency, you will see several tiles in the middle of the page. In the second row down, on the left, is a tile labeled Citation Help. This link will take you to our Citation Guide and our Citation Maker. These can be very useful to you. Very.