Bill Birnbaum

Preparing for Your Strategic Planning Meetings (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

All too often, managers give insufficient thought to preparing for their strategic planning meetings. So they arrive at their meetings without the needed information to make necessary strategic decisions. Or they discover, far too late, that their planning team members are unfamiliar with the strategic planning process. Or, because they haven't used a pre-planning survey, they suffer from a terribly slow start to their strategy discussions. Also because they've not used a pre-planning survey, they fail to discuss some important, though somewhat sensitive issues so those issues remain not-discussed and unresolved.

Such faulty preparation invariably leads to unproductive strategic planning meetings and to serious problems with the implementation of the plan's resultant strategies. Clearly, a well thought out process of pre-planning would be beneficial. A well thought out process of pre-planning is exactly what strategy consultant Bill Birnbaum presents in this book. Based on his three decades of experience helping client management teams prepare for, as well as conduct, their strategic planning meetings, he shares his "Ten Steps to Success."

Birnbaum clearly explains:
1. The criteria for selecting the "right" planning team members.
2. How best to educate your planning team to the strategic planning process.
3. How to develop the planning assumptions you'll need.
4. Gathering of information you'll need to make sound, strategic decisions.
5. Why, when and how to conduct a pre-planning information sharing meeting.
6. How to decide on the time span for your plan three year? Five year? Or ten year strategic plan? And which is best for your organization?
7. Using pre-planning surveys Why? How? Who? Specific questions to ask. And how the surveys will bring benefit to your strategic planning meetings.
8. What location for your planning meeting? Away from the office, but why? Far away vs. nearby. Pros and cons of each choice.
9. Should you meet on consecutive days? Or in a series of one-day meetings? Determining which is best for your organization.
10. Facilities required for your strategy meetings. Space, equipment, supplies. Nitty gritty stuff that's easy to forget.

If your organization would benefit from thoughtful preparation for its strategy meetings, then you and your planning team would benefit from reading this book. Your time invested in such preparation would pay back many fold in the form of a sound strategic plan and in the success of the strategies within that plan.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bill Birnbaum
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781932632033
• Artikelnr.: 70043810

Autorenporträt

For over three decades, I've worked with senior management teams helping them develop a shared strategic vision for their organization and then turn that vision into a sound business strategy. For 20 years, I published and edited the Business Strategies Newsletter. I've authored a number of strategy books including "Strategic Thinking: A Four Piece Puzzle," currently in its fifth printing. Also for 20 years, I taught strategy courses for the American Management Association including: • The Strategic Planning Course • Strategy Implementation (I developed this course for the AMA) • Thinking and Managing Strategically I also developed The Strategic Planning WorkshopTM, a hands-on program to prepare senior management teams to develop their strategic plan. I've conducted that program for hundreds of organizations and thousands of senior and mid-level managers. I've served on the board of directors for three high-growth corporations, all of which were acquired per the plan I help them develop. • ISR Corporation • Trans-met Engineering • Woodroof Laboratories I'm certified as a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) by the Institute of Management Consultants. I hold a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master's Degree in Business Administration. In 2007, I lived and worked as a business consultant in Abancay, Peru, helping entrepreneurs and university students stimulate economic development in this poor region of the Peruvian Andes. I lectured at both UNAMBA and UTEA Universities and wrote for Nuevo Management Journal. I speak, read and write Spanish, and have traveled extensively in Spain, Mexico and South America. Now semi-retired, I work with a few select clients from time to time. I continue to write on the subject of business strategy development and implementation and also offer critique of strategic plans and strategic planning processes.