Even if you're putting off thinking about strategic planning for next year, it's time to give it at least one thought. Time's marching ahead, and it will be next year before you know it.
Here’s the one thought: How about identifying where you can roll out a simplified strategic planning process?
What are ideas to make strategic planning less cumbersome than it’s been at your company in the past?
5 Ideas for Simplified Strategic Planning this Year
If you’re stumped, here five ideas we’d suggest where you can save some time, effort, and hassle in strategic planning:
- Start preparing your strategic foundation and situation analysis updates by asking, "What things still apply and are relevant for next year?"
- Don't demand more precision in the planning work than you have certainty in your future situation.
- Prioritize the time you invest in creating specific product/service marketing plans based on each one's expected contribution to revenue and profit growth.
- Look at how many strategies and tactics you actually implemented this year, and use that as the threshold for how deeply detailed your plan for next year should be.
- If you have a bunch of unimplemented strategies and tactics for this year that are still sound, simply use those for next year's plan.
Want one other idea for ensuring simplified strategic planning?
Contact us, and let The Brainzooming Group facilitate your planning for next year using our collaborative and streamlined Brainzooming planning methodology.
We still have capacity to get your strategic plan done in plenty of time to start implementing it right away in the new year! – Mike Brown
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