Strategic Planning Challenges – Addressing 5 More Struggles

With a global audience, Brainzooming enjoys a great opportunity to learn about typical strategic planning challenges that organizations of all sizes face.

In a recent article, we shared ideas for tackling the top five strategic planning challenges readers identified (Cultivating Strategic Thinking, Building Buy-in and Alignment, Working toward Successful Implementation & Results, Facilitating Strategy Development, Engaging Participants).

Addressing 5 More Strategic Planning Challenges

The next five strategic planning challenges readers identified are:

• Strategic Change Management
• Developing an Innovation Strategy
• Revenue & Profit Growth Strategy
• Making Strategic Planning Fun
• Building Executive Engagement

Here are twenty Brainzooming articles addressing these planning issues:

Strategic Change Management

• 3 Lessons in How Culture Change Works
• 8 Big Culture Change Lessons from an Unlikely Source
• 6 Areas to Highlight What’s New to Aid Change
• Managing Ongoing Performance Gaps

Developing an Innovation Strategy

• 19 Options to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy
• 6 Things about Your Innovation Strategy Employees Need to Know 
• 9 Critical Steps Before Your Innovation Strategy Gets Sexy 
• 4 Ways to Celebrate Risk Taking 

Revenue & Profit Growth Strategy

• 10 Questions to Identify Sales Opportunities 
• Change Your Character – Get Into Growth Mode 
• Current Clients, New Opportunities – Five Ideas to Discover New Growth
• Go to Market Strategy - 10 Fundamentals Your Strategy Plan Must Include 

Making Strategic Planning Fun

• 5 Fun Strategic Planning Activities 
• 7 Ways Groups Can Collaborate on Fun Strategic Planning 
• Fun Strategic Planning Exercises – 7 Types of Strategic Planning Fun 
• Fun Strategic Planning Exercises - 6 Last-Minute Creative Ideas 

Building Executive Engagement

• 12 Strategic Thinking Exercises to Stretch Executive Perspectives 
• 3 Keys to Gaining Buy-In for New Strategic Initiatives 
• Make an Executive Naysayer Earn Those Complaints 
• 3 Ways to Keep Strategic Priorities Front and Center with Executives 

Look for the final set of challenges in an upcoming Brainzooming article.

In the meantime, what are your struggles with improving the engagement, effectiveness, and efficiency of your process to develop strategy? Let's talk about ideas, resources, and techniques we have at Brainzooming to get you over the challenges! – Mike Brown

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