Strategic Management

Strategic Management Books Content :

Foreword

Acknowledgments

How to Use this Handbook

Section I: Guidance

An Introduction to Strategic Management

Phase I Deployment: Completing the Strategic Plan

Keys to Success

Assign roles and responsibilities

Establish priorities

Involve mid-level management as active participants

Think it through?decide how to manage implementation

Charge mid-level management with aligning

lower-level plans

Make careful choices about the contents of the plan

and the form it will take

Phase II Deployment: Communicating the Strategic Plan

Keys to Success

Assign roles and responsibilities

Communicate the plan constantly and consistently

Recognize the change process

Help people through the change process

Contents

?iv? Strategic Management for Senior Leaders: A Handbook for Implementation

Implementing the Strategic Plan

Keys to Success

Assign roles and responsibilities

Involve senior leaders

Define an infrastructure

Link goal groups

Phase integration of implementation actions with workload

Involve everyone within the organization

Allocate resources for implementation

Manage the change process

Evaluate results

Share lessons learned; acknowledge successes

through open and frequent communication

Strategic Measurement

Keys to Success

Assign roles and responsibilities

Use measurement to understand the organization

Use measurement to provide a consistent viewpoint

from which to gauge performance

Use measurement to provide an integrated, focused

view of the future

Use measurement to communicate policy

(new strategic direction)

Update the measurement system

Use measurement to provide quality feedback to the

strategic management process

Strategic Management for Senior Leaders: A Handbook for Implementation ?v?

Revisiting the Strategic Plan

Keys to Success

Assign roles and responsibilities

Recognize when to update the plan

Modify strategic planning process to accommodate the

more mature organization

Incorporate new leaders into the strategic planning process

Integrate measurement with strategic planning

Use experienced strategic planning facilitators

Section II: Case Studies

Case Studies: Strategic Plans at Work

Naval Air Station, Barbers Point

Naval Air Facility Washington

United States Military Entrance Processing Command

Center for Veterinary Medicine

Section III: Appendix

Glossary

Bibliography

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