Strategic Planning
Strategic planning is a technique used to identify an organization’s goals, their strategies for achieving those goals and the success indicators to demonstrate that the strategies have been efficiently implemented and the goals realized. Strategic plans should be developed enough in advance of an anticipated outcome to allow an organization to comfortably identify and implement its goals. Depending upon specific needs, strategic plans are sometimes short-term (annually), long-term (3 to 5 years) or a combination of both short and long-term.
Strategic plans have a wide array of uses. Listed below are some applications where QSI has assisted customers in not only realizing their goals, but in saving substantial revenue in doing so:
- Quality Planning
- Project Planning
- Business Continuity
- Business Expansion Planning
- Strategic Supplier Alliance Planning
Developing a Strategic Business Plan and establishing both short and long-term strategies:
- Eliminates confusion where goals and objectives are clearly defined, including responsibilities at all levels
- Enhances opportunities for success by focusing on and effectively utilizing resources
Strategic Business Planning can be used for stabilizing operations for all facets of a business:
- Business Continuity Planning
- Identification of areas for continual improvement
- Integration of business goals and objectives with industry recognition schemes (i.e., quality systems, environmental systems, etc.)
- Identification and integration of new market places and/or new products and services with existing practices
- Identification of critical factors for business expansion
- Customer Pre-contract Award
- Project Quality
- Identification and creation of strategic supplier alliances
