If you’re starting a new business or planning your business’s future, there are plenty of things you should take into account. Strategic Planning For Dummies covers everything you need to know to develop a plan for building and maintaining a competitive advantage — no matter what business you’re in. 
Written by Erica Olsen, founder and President of a business development firm that helps entrepreneurial-minded businesses plan for a successful future, this handy guide covers all the basics, including: <ul>
<li>How a strategic plan is different than a business plan</li> <li>Establishing a step-based planning process</li> <li>Planning for and encouraging growth</li> <li>Taking a long-view of your organization</li> <li>Evaluating past performance</li> <li>Defining and refining your mission, values, and vision</li> <li>Sizing up your current situation</li> <li>Examining your industry landscape</li> <li>Setting your strategic priorities</li> <li>Planning for unknown contingencies</li> </ul>
If you’re in business, you have to plan for everything — especially if you intend your business to grow. Whether you’re planning for a small business, large conglomerate, nonprofit, or even a government agency, this book has the planning specifics you need for your organization. Step-by-step, you’ll learn how to lay the foundations for a plan, understand how your plan will affect your business, form planning teams, discover what your strengths are, see where you are, and, finally, plan where you’re going. And there’s much more: <ul>
<li>Learn to analyze business trends that will determine your business’s future</li> <li>Set measurable, realistic goals that you can plan for and achieve</li> <li>Make strategic planning a habitual part of the organization</li> <li>Prioritize multiple strategies that you can implement simultaneously</li> <li>Set a defining vision for the organization that guides all your planning and strategy</li> </ul>
This friendly, simple guide puts the power of strategic planning in the palm of your hand. For small businesses that can’t afford to hire strategic planning consultants, it’s even more imperative. Careful, constant planning is the only way to handle an uncertain business future. With this book, you’ll have all the step-by-step guidance you need to ensure you’re ready for anything that comes.

Strategic Planning for Dummies

Business & Money

Olsen, Erica

Management & Leadership

For Dummies

Think and act strategically every time In today's business environment, strategic planning stresses the importance of making decisions that will ensure an organization's ability to successfully respond to changes in the environment and plan for sustainable viability. Providing practical, field-tested techniques and a complete 6-phase plan, Strategic Planning Kit For Dummies shows you how to make strategy a habit for all organizations, no matter the size, type, or resource constraints. Strategic Planning Kit For Dummies is for companies of all types and sizes looking to build and sustain a competitive edge, set up an ongoing process for market assessment and trend analysis, and develop a vision for future growth. This revised edition includes: new and updated content on planning for both the short and the long-term; crucial information on succession planning; help preparing for the unexpected using scenario planning and agile strategy; strategies for implementing change and integrating strategic plans successfully by involving all staff members; and more. <ul>
<li>The supplementary CD lays out a comprehensive, 6-phase, step-by-step program, complete with downloadable spreadsheets, charts, checklists, video links, and more</li> <li>Provides value for any business or entrepreneur looking to improve efficiency, focus, and competitive edge</li> <li>Includes practical, field-tested techniques</li> </ul>
Strategic Planning Kit For Dummies gives today's business owners and upper-level management the tools and information they need to think and act strategically in order to more effectively weather current economic storms while planning for future growth.

Strategic Planning Kit for Dummies

Create a roadmap for your company’s future success―the For Dummies way 
Strategic Planning Kit For Dummies not only teaches you how to build a solid business strategy, but it gives you the tools to do it. Checklists, worksheets, and real-life examples guide you through answering your most pressing questions. Plus, all-new online resources make creating a lasting strategy easier than ever. Build a company vision statement, assess your strategic position, engage your team, and execute your plan―with easy-to-understand instructions and explanations that anyone can follow. This revised edition shows you how to adapt your strategy, plan for the unknown, and stay resilient through all the changes facing today’s businesses. Advice from For Dummies experts will make any business leader’s strategic dreams a reality. Learn the basics of how to create a long-term business strategy Create your mission and vision statements and a strategic framework Get organized, engage your team, and deploy your strategy through objectives and key results Access resources, worksheets, checklists and more―in the book and online 
This is the For Dummies guide for business owners and C-suite executives who are building or rethinking their company’s strategy and planning a path for growth. It’s a big job, but you don’t have to do it alone. Dummies has your back.\nFrom the Back Cover\nLead your organization to greater growth and impact 
Strategic Planning Kit For Dummies helps you create a roadmap to the future of your organization. With this hands-on toolkit, you’ll assess where you are today, create a bold vision of the future, and create a roadmap to get there. By the time you’re through this book, you’ll have concrete goals and objectives with measurable outcomes. You’ll also get expert guidance on how to keep your organization focused and connected to your long-term vision of the future. 
Inside… Understanding what strategic planning is and why it works Casting a big, bold vision Identifying a market-focused strategy Narrowing down your priorities Deploying your strategy with OKRs Running a quarterly strategy refresh & execution cycle

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The Utah Canyons WildMall gives tourists exactly what they want. An archivist preserves a rare map of a vanished Lake Tahoe. The Grand Canyon can only be visited in replica form. These storieslyrical, deadpan, surrealblur the line between the natural world and the world we make. A Library Journal Best Short Story Collection of the Year Praise for Recapture: Unsentimental stories that tell us what the American West looks like now and what we’ve lost; the Grand Canyon, for instance, can be seen only in replica after environmental catastrophe.” LIBRARY JOURNAL "Recapture is a living, breathing museum of natural wonders. With writing as spare as the landscape she evokes, Olsen wades through the detritus of the human experience and finds clarity there, and some magic, too." ZYZZYVA "Recapture isa gem, a small collection of stories that is a pleasure to read and consider." TERRAIN.ORG "Olsen's deft use of language creates stories that exude not only loneliness and longing, but also dark humor." SUNDOG LIT "These are sexy stories that are never explicit, knowing exactly which details are necessary for their effect and describing no more." TOTTENVILLE REVIEW "True to its name, Recapture grasps after lost loves, fading histories, and shifting landscapes to bring us an expertly curated series of human exhibits in an expansive, outdoor museum." THE MUSEUM OF AMERICANA "Erica Olsen gives us the dream life of the Southwest in this striking collection, a landscape told in language as spare and pungent and exacting as the desert itself. A swift and lovely debut from a writer of real gifts." KEVIN CANTY, author of Where the Money Went "These sly, heartbreaking stories capture the modern West, where the past is ever-present and the future is already here." ALISON BAKER, author of How I Came West, and Why I Stayed "Beneath their polished surfaces, Erica Olsen's stories are subversive, sometimes darkly funny, and always disquieting. This accomplished writer really knows her way through the tricky zone between truth and falsehood where art is made." SUSAN LOWELL HUMPHREYS, author of Ganado Red "A sharp, wise new voice from the American West, Erica Olsen is the real thing. As wild as David Foster Wallace or George Saunders and as tender as James Salter or Alice Munro, Olsen’s stories are hilarious, painful, and achingly lovely." AMANDA EYRE WARD, author of Close Your Eyes "Like all good narratives, Erica Olsen’s Grand Canyon II” suggests great consequence. The past is another country. The task of memory is impossible. No one exists and nothing ever happened. But somewhere in your brain, a beautiful lie is being spun..." SARAH MANGUSO, author of The Guardians "Recapture is like a lost map of the backcountry, detailing the forgotten places where secrets shove up through the dust, pieces of lives demanding to be made whole. The territory is endlessly illuminating and constantly surprising, revealing a master storyteller at work." KIM TODD, author of Tinkering with Eden: A Natural History of Exotic Species in America

Recapture

Literature & Fiction

United States

Torrey House Press

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