Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning Lifecycle Process

Careful execution of a strategic planning process that helps your organization align its vision, mission and code of ethics with its work processes will ensure that your organization is prepared for today and the future.

Planning is a conscious, systematic process of decision making and goal setting. Amaro & Associates, Inc. delivers a step-wise approach to the Strategic Planning process.The step-wise approach allows you, the client, to determine what to do and how to go about doing it. Each stage of the process builds on the previous one; thereby creating stepping stones of lessons learned that will propel your business towards success.

Strategic planning is one part within a suite of management services, all of which will be specifically tailored to fit your business.Our Management Consultants work directly with you, your leaders and managers to craft a plan that targets your specific business needs.Prior to enacting the planning process itself, data is gathered to determine the organizational culture, the desired behaviors and the controls in place.This data automatically feeds into the step-wise methodology used for the strategic planning process.

SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS

A situation analysis studies past events, examines current conditions, and attempts to forecast future trends. The outcome of this analysis is the identification and diagnosis of planning assumptions, issues, and problems.

  • Past Events
  • Current Conditions
  • Forecasting
  • Trend Analysis

GOALS AND PLAN DISCOVERY

Based on the situational analysis goals and plans are discovered that will be aligned with the organizations Vision and Mission.

  • Activities
  • Goals
  • Contingency Plans
  • Tracking
  • Service Improvements
  • Tuning

GOAL AND PLAN EVALUATION

Leveraging the outcomes of the discovery stage, the advantages, disadvantages and potential effects of each discovered goal and plan are evaluated.

  • High-Priorities
  • High-Need
  • Cost Reduction
  • Relevance
  • Management
  • High-Desire

GOAL AND PLAN SELECTION

Once the goals and plans have been evaluated a selection process occurs to identify the most appropriate and feasible goals and plans. The evaluation process will identify priorities and trade-offs.

  • Planning Scenarios
  • Workflow Management Control
  • Service Refinements
  • Implement
  • Quality
  • Targets

VISION, MISSION, CODE OF ETHICS

Organizations of every size must have a vision, mission and code of ethics statement. These fundamental axioms define who you are as an organization and will have a profound affect on an organization’s culture and behavior. The absence of a well instituted vision, mission and code of ethics causes organizations to wander instead of march toward a goal.

  • Vision Statement
  • Code of Ethics
  • Mission

IMPLEMENTATION AND CONTROL

The implementation of the strategic plan within your organization is done by your managers and leaders. Our Management consultants will guide you toward success.

  • Training
  • Control Charts
  • Performance Monitoring
  • Communication
  • Status Reports

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