Strategic Planning For Dummies 1st Edition by Erica Olsen (PDF)

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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:How a strategic plan is different than a business planEstablishing a step-based planning processPlanning for and encouraging growthTaking a long-view of your organizationEvaluating past performanceDefining and refining your mission, values, and visionSizing up your current situationExamining your industry landscapeSetting your strategic prioritiesPlanning for unknown contingenciesIf 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:Learn to analyze business trends that will determine your business’s futureSet measurable, realistic goals that you can plan for and achieveMake strategic planning a habitual part of the organizationPrioritize multiple strategies that you can implement simultaneouslySet a defining vision for the organization that guides all your planning and strategyThis 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.

User’s Reviews

Editorial Reviews: From the Back Cover Define your company’s mission, vision, and valuesDevelop and execute your strategic plan for solid business growthNeed help setting a vision for your business or planning for an uncertain future? Don’t worry! Strategic Planning For Dummies shows you how to build and sustain a competitive edge, analyze markets and trends, and plan for future growth. With this friendly guide to business planning, you won’t fly blind into your company’s future.Discover how toEstablish a step-by-step planning processSelect a planning teamPrioritize future opportunitiesDevelop solid strategiesExecute your plan About the Author Erica Olsen holds a BA in Communications and an MBA in International Management from Thunderbird. She’s frequently tapped to lecture at the University of Nevada in Reno and the University of Phoenix in Reno on management and planning topics. She hosts workshops and has spoken at conferences nationwide. As one of the developers of MyStrategicPlan, Erica has stripped strategic planning of its fate as a static document. With her online strategic planning system, any organization, regardless of size and budget, can build a plan in a matter of weeks (or even days). Once completed, the online system actually helps organizations execute the plan instead of just shoving it on a shelf. MyStrategicPlan is just one of several services offered by Erica’s company, M3 Planning. M3 also does onsite strategic planning facilitation and retreats as well as market research consulting. Over the last several years, M3 has developed and reviewed hundreds of strategic plans for organizations across the country. In addition to Strategic Planning For Dummies, Erica has co-authored Strategic Planning Made Easy: A Practical Guide to Growth and Profitability, and contributes regular columns to local, regional, and national business publications.

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐I absolutely love the way the book started. It creates an organized, clean approach to strategic planning with a step by step process checklist. This checklist is an easy way to understand, implement, and execute key actionables set for your organization. But then, it completely deviates from this plan. You have to reference back and forth, trying to piece together the information that is thrown at you.The success of a plan is its simplicity and ability to consistently execute. I just wish she stuck with her original plan and laid out the book the way she started.

⭐Yes. Great book for strategic planning.

⭐Excellent, good for novice and great refresher for experienced. Step by step highlighting the important things. This is relatively cheap compared to other books on the subject but just a good.

⭐Very basic, as the Dummies guides tend to be. I prefer Balanced Scorecard Planning for Dummies – but this might be an appropriate starter super-Dummies version before you dig into a specific method like BSC. Regardless, a good intro and it will get you started off right.

⭐Thank you.

⭐Item received as expected

⭐On a number of pages with graphics there are formatting problems. On the Kindle for Mac desktop version the graphic covers some of the text with no way to access the text. On the Kindle for Ipad (on an iPad 3) the results are more usable in both landscape and portrait modes, although graphics sometimes go off the edge of the page there is a clickable arrow to see the missing part but there is no way to see the whole graphic. The Kindle Touch doesn’t show the whole of the graphic, they are clipped at the edge of the page with no way to access the missing parts.This is unacceptable for any ebook but worse when you see it with a well known publisher.

⭐It was adequate for my needs.

⭐I found this book an excellent reference to Strategic Planning – for the SME.I found it to be a pretty practical guide to what is in reality a pretty complex subject. I had not brushed up on my strategic planning reading since completing an MBA several years ago so I chose this book as part of my reading list. I found it to be a very good refresher, although its not really designed for large businesses in mind.This book is great for those who work in, or even run a small and medium sized enterprise (SME) who want either an introduction or a refresher to an under-utilised and poorly applied strategic business tool.

⭐No new ideas here

⭐It’s very readable and logical, and takes into consideration the role of strategic planning for non profit organisations. Glad I got it.

⭐would recommend it to ny entrepreneur.Well written fantastly presented and carries on the Dummies legacy od simplifying everything GREAT

⭐Excellent book, very easy to follow and I would recommend it to anyone thinking of starting up their own business.

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