Draft Design for a Strategic Planning Process

Strategic planning process sets stage for success.

When Andy Koval joined what was then called the University of Vermont’s Technical Services Program (TSP) as a biomedical equipment technician in 1999, he remembers being presented with the organization’s strategic plan as part of his new employee orientation. When clinical engineer Leah Rafuse joined one year later, she too received the strategic plan at orientation and thereafter heard periodi...

The Vital Issues Process: Strategic Planning for a Changing World

The Vital Issues process (VIP) is a strategic planning tool initially developed by Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) for the Office of Foreign Intelligence (OFI)* of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). It was further developed and refined through its application to a variety of strategic purposes for a range of public and semipublic organizations. The VIP provides a structured mechanism for a...

A Strategic Planning Process for Public and Non-profit Organizations

A pragmatic approach to strategic planning is presented for use by public and non-profit organizations. Benefits of the process are outlined and two examples of its application are presented-one involving a city government and the other a public health nursing service. Requirements for strategic planning success are discussed. Several conclusions are drawn, namely that: (7) strategic planning i...

Analytic Network Process Based Strategic Planning for Iran's Trade Promotion Organization

Strategic planning in each organization identifies its orientation and coming priorities as all decisions to be adopted respect to the ensuing outcomes. Strategic decisions considering crucial and irreversible results should not be based on experience and judgments. This paper uses analytic network process (ANP) method for prioritization in strategic planning. ANP is mostly analogous to analyti...

Strategic Planning for Islamic-Iranian City