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The Strategic Planning Process

&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;left&semi;margin&colon;0px 0px 0px 0&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>6-Evaluation of strategy<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The figure below shows the strategic planning process and the feedback cycle&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img data-attachment-id&equals;"89" data-permalink&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;mba-tutorials&period;com&sol;strategic&lowbar;management&lowbar;process&sol;" data-orig-file&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i0&period;wp&period;com&sol;mba-tutorials&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2009&sol;08&sol;strategic&lowbar;management&lowbar;process&period;JPG&quest;fit&equals;436&percnt;2C568&amp&semi;ssl&equals;1" data-orig-size&equals;"436&comma;568" data-comments-opened&equals;"1" data-image-meta&equals;"&lbrace;&quot&semi;aperture&quot&semi;&colon;&quot&semi;0&quot&semi;&comma;&quot&semi;credit&quot&semi;&colon;&quot&semi;&quot&semi;&comma;&quot&semi;camera&quot&semi;&colon;&quot&semi;&quot&semi;&comma;&quot&semi;caption&quot&semi;&colon;&quot&semi;&quot&semi;&comma;&quot&semi;created&lowbar;timestamp&quot&semi;&colon;&quot&semi;0&quot&semi;&comma;&quot&semi;copyright&quot&semi;&colon;&quot&semi;&quot&semi;&comma;&quot&semi;focal&lowbar;length&quot&semi;&colon;&quot&semi;0&quot&semi;&comma;&quot&semi;iso&quot&semi;&colon;&quot&semi;0&quot&semi;&comma;&quot&semi;shutter&lowbar;speed&quot&semi;&colon;&quot&semi;0&quot&semi;&comma;&quot&semi;title&quot&semi;&colon;&quot&semi;&quot&semi;&rcub;" data-image-title&equals;"strategic&lowbar;management&lowbar;process" data-image-description&equals;"" data-image-caption&equals;"" data-medium-file&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i0&period;wp&period;com&sol;mba-tutorials&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2009&sol;08&sol;strategic&lowbar;management&lowbar;process&period;JPG&quest;fit&equals;230&percnt;2C300&amp&semi;ssl&equals;1" data-large-file&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i0&period;wp&period;com&sol;mba-tutorials&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2009&sol;08&sol;strategic&lowbar;management&lowbar;process&period;JPG&quest;fit&equals;436&percnt;2C568&amp&semi;ssl&equals;1" class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-89" title&equals;"strategic&lowbar;management&lowbar;process" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;mba-tutorials&period;com&sol;&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2009&sol;08&sol;strategic&lowbar;management&lowbar;process&period;JPG" alt&equals;"strategic&lowbar;management&lowbar;process" width&equals;"436" height&equals;"568" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"file&colon;&sol;&sol;&sol;C&colon;&sol;Documents&percnt;20and&percnt;20Settings&sol;Adam&sol;Application&percnt;20Data&sol;Windows&percnt;20Live&percnt;20Writer&sol;PostSupportingFiles&sol;f7cfd8b1-b5f4-4a21-bcc6-32ca90e467d2&sol;TheStrategicPlanningProcess4&period;jpg"><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Company vision &amp&semi; mission<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>In this phase company define its vision which the future roadmap and mission to determine the company&lbrack;linkunit&rsqb; objectives&comma;products&comma;business&comma;employees etc&period; In short mission statement communicate the reason of existence of the company both internally and externally&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This phase help out company to determine financial and strategic objective for the company&period;Financial objective consist of budget&comma;revenues and sales and strategic objectives comprise of market share&comma;customer base and sales&period; Mission and vision is vital for every organization whether its small or large does not matter&comma; both the statement act as a soul for the company&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad2" id&equals;"quads-ad2" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px 0 0px 0&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<h3>Internal audit<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>The internal audit assist the company to find out their internal resources&period; Internal audit clearly identify the internal strengths and weakness of the company&period; Internal strengths is the valuable resources of the company to exploit new opportunities&period; Internal weakness are overcome with time and company will look forward to convert these to strengths to avoid risk for the future&period; Internal audit performed by different method include statistical&comma; mathematical and ratio analysis&period; The strategic management tool IFE matrix evaluate company internal factors on the basis of numeric values&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>External audit<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Company deal with two environment one is internal as discussed above and other is external&period; Internal environment can be controlled by the company &lbrack;adsense1&rsqb;but external environment is not within control of the company&period; The external environment is made of &lpar;PEST&rpar; political&comma;legal and social and technological issues&comma; change in any one of these environment will impact the company&period;It&&num;8217&semi;s not necessary change always harm the company objectives sometimes it also in favor of company&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>EFE matrix is the famous strategic tool to evaluate the external environment of the company&period;EFE matrix with combination of porter five forces model can give valuable findings to the strategists&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Formulation of strategy<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Strategy is the road map to achieve goal and objectives of the company&period;The result of internal and external audit will allow the company to develop strategies by looking at their strengths&comma;weakness&comma;opportunities and threats&period; To attain better profitability company develop core competencies over its rivals&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Implementation of strategy<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>It&&num;8217&semi;s not necessary best strategy always produce better result&period; Strategy that company adopt will works as company thought is totally depend upon this stage&period; The people implementing the strategy are important for the success of the strategy&comma; they must know the objectives of the company&comma;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>People who involve in strategy development should become the part of the implementation team&period; All the team performing activities should have the full understanding of the strategy otherwise without knowledge they can misunderstood and can be implemented in the wrong direction&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Evaluation of Strategy<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>The implementation of strategy is monitored and if any discrepancy and bottleneck are found it should be removed during that time to avoid future loss&period;This phase can revert back to any other phase of strategic management cycle for correction or improvement of the strategy&period;&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 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