Let’s face it – although most companies have probably heard of strategic planning and have done some on occasion, most do not have a well-defined process for doing it. And that’s understandable – strategic planning is a fuzzy and often painful process.
When SmartDraw itself undertook a strategic planning initiative in fall, 2009 we designed a new, simple, and effective strategic planning process that we have since dubbed Visual Strategic Planning. The VSP methodology made it a breeze for us to sort out our company’s critical issues, and eventually it lead us to a robust strategy that could be clearly and easily transformed into an operational plan, which in turn was easy to communicate to the rest of the company.
I tried to capture the essence of what we did, how it worked, and how strategic planning processes in general worked in a PowerPoint presentation, which I’ve uploaded to SmartDraw’s SlideShare channel and embedded below.
What do you think? How does this compare to what your company does or has done? Please feel free to ask questions in the comemnts below or in SmartDraw's LinkedIn group.
