Strategic Management - Strategic Planning - Salah Skaik

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Copyright © 2012 - S.A.S 2

A Rolling Stone Gathers

No moss

Prevent Your Strategic Plan

From Stagnating 3

Copyright © 2012 - S.A.S

Emerald Article

2012

John W. Myrna 4


Main Objectives of the Paper

Explaining the critical importance of

actually using and implementing your

company’s strategic plan.

Offering practical tips for avoiding the

most common traps that keep a

strategic plan ignored or sitting on a

shelf.

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Introduction

Just as a rolling stone gathers

no moss, a strategic plan that’s

actually used will gather

no dust.


Introduction

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Companies devote time and

energy to developing strategic

plans, only to never look at

them again once they have

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The Four Most Common Traps

The four most common traps that keep strategic plan on the Shelf:


Cont. The Four Most Common Traps

Trap 1

Mismanaging People Who Do

Not Implement As Asked.


Trap 2

Undermining Personal Motivation

And Ownership.

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Trap 3

Losing Momentum In The Face Of

Daily Operational Needs.

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Trap 4

Failing To Accept How The

“Real World” Works

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Trap 1: Mismanaging people who do not implement as asked

Why do people fail to do

what you have asked them

to do ??????!!!!!!



Reason No. 1

People Do Not Realize You Really

Want Them To Do What

You Have Asked.

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Why do people fail to do what you have asked them to do?



Reason No. 2

People Do Not Want

To Do It.

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Reason No. 3

People Do not Know How To do It.

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Reason No. 4

People Do not Have A System To

Keep Up The Momentum

Once They Begin. 17



Trap 2: Undermining personal motivation and ownership

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Failing to create a planning experiences

and then sustain an environment that

encourages personal motivation and

ownership



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Example

Think about the experience of reading a play versus attending an excellent

performance of that play



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Example

Or\ Have you ever read sheet music and then attended an excellent performance

of the piece?



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Key No. 1

Soliciting Independent Thoughts

The key elements of creating a positive strategic planning experience are these:



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Key No. 2

Sustaining Interactions Between

Team Members




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Key No. 3

Building A Shared Visualization

Of The Future




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Key No. 4

Identifying this year’s focus on status quo

changes will accelerate the motion

toward the shared visualization of the

future




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Do Not Get Wrong!!!



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Trap 3: Losing Momentum In The Face Of Daily Operational Needs

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Trap 3:

Losing Momentum In The

Face Of Daily Operational Needs



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1- AGREEMENT

Progress Accelerator Phases



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2- ACCOUNTABILITY




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3- ACTION




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4- ASSESSMENT



Trap 4: Failing To Accept How The “Real World” Works

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Draft Vs.

Version 1.0 Plan

The Words You Use Affect Your Outcomes



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Try

Do or do not. there is no try When we finish Vs.

If we finish




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Positive Ends

Ex: Setting an objective to increase employee and customer

retention rather than “Reduce Turnover”



In the real world

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People do not recognize progress or connect the dots.

You need to feed the souls of your team

members Periodically, take some time to identify and

celebrate everything you have accomplished Tie the accomplishments back to your plan, If you do not, people will lose faith that the plan

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Remember

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Strategy is a shared visualization of where your team wants to be within three to five years


Remember

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What makes a strategic plan

“strategic” is its ability to change the status quo


Remember

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Building implementation into your planning process from the very start and avoiding the four most common traps will keep your company’s strategic plan from joining too many others in the “dustbin history”


THE END

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