Strategic Planning Software
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Learn how using the right visuals can improve the strategic planning process.
Improve your strategic planning process through the use of powerful visuals, made easy with SmartDraw.
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The Strategic Planning Process
Strategic planning involves defining a mission, establishing goals and objectives, and creating strategies to attain those goals and objectives.
It's often something you will revisit throughout the year to make sure you're on track and this cycle will repeat annually. You can represent the strategic planning model visually:
A strategy is a long-term plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal, as differentiated from a tactic or immediate action to be pursued with resources on hand.
The development of a strategic plan requires detailed information gathering and analysis, and must be developed to match the desires of the leadership team responsible for the plan with the realities of the current situation both internal and external to the organization.
These realities are often represented in a SWOT diagram.
See more SWOT diagram examples.
Once the plan is completed, you'll implement the plan, and periodically evaluate the results.
SmartDraw is the easiest way to create strategic planning diagrams and charts. Choose a template or example that's most like your project, customize it with your information, and SmartDraw does the rest, aligning everything automatically and applying professional design themes for presentation-quality results every time.
How SmartDraw makes strategic planning incredibly easy:
- Quick-Start Strategic Planning Templates
Hundreds of professionally-designed templates like strategy maps, balanced scorecards, SWOT diagrams, and more make you instantly productive. Simply choose the template that is most similar to your project, and customize it with your own information. - Automatic Formatting
Click simple commands and SmartDraw builds your diagram for you, automatically. Add or remove an element, and SmartDraw realigns and arranges everything automatically for great results every time. - Easy PowerPoint® Generation
Plan your strategic planning presentation with a SmartDraw storyboard, include compelling SmartDraw charts and graphs, then click "Build" and SmartDraw creates your PowerPoint presentation for you! - Publish to Web
Select the Publish to Web option, and your presentation will be accessible from any web browser or on your mobile devices. You can even share it with your team or the public. - Work Seamlessly with Microsoft Office®
Copy your chart into Microsoft Word®, PowerPoint® or Excel® with a single click. - Free Support
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