Weakness And Strengths Of Strategic Planning In An Organization

Strategic planning is something that all organizations should use. I thought strategic planning was a simple and fast task, but I was wrong. This type of planning requires a lot of patients and time. The steps include, but not limited to, set up for success, stakeholder engagement, mission, vision, values, environmental scan, theory of change and program portfolio and so on. Even though no one step is better than another, I feel that some stick out, to me, more than others. The first step that sticks out to me is the mission, vision and values statement. I feel that these statements tend to be the face of an organization. When you look up an organization, you tend to see these statements first and not the stakeholders or environmental scans first. I feel that

SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunity and Threats. The strengths and weaknesses deal more with internal or input on the organization. The opportunity and threats deal more with external factors. I feel that this SWOT is very important, because it gives the organization the chance to asses how they are doing and what to do next. Should an organization increase their strength or try to strengthen a weakness? I feel that the weaknesses might need a little more attention, as the strengths are already doing good. Some goes with the threats and opportunity. Opportunities might be something to look into, but I feel that any threats should be addressed first. The best part of this is that you have to actually look into the organization to find all these things. It is easy to see your strengths or other positives things. Most people see the good things and try to ignore the not so good stuff. Once the SWOT items have been established, I feel that it is important to pick a few out of all the items at hand. I feel that one from each category is the best, because it allows the planning committee to get together and choose out of the top four ideas to work