Strategic planning is an
analytical process where the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats,
(four things also well-known as SWOT analysis) of a company are studied,
providing key information to intelligently identify and select potentially
successful projects.
SWOT analysis:
- Strengths: Strengths must
focus on what the company can do with its internal resources.
- Weaknesses: Weaknesses can
include any area in which the company lacks strength.
- Opportunities: external chances
to make greater sales or profits in the environment.
- Threats: external elements
in the environment that could cause trouble for the business.
I personally think that companies
focus on weaknesses to be able to make positive changes in order to improve a
project, and to not make the same mistakes in future projects.
I think the biggest problem with these concepts, will be who is in charge. I've done a lot of things, in a lot of places. I've worked on projects where we had time, and resources, but the ego or intelligence or maturity of the person leading us, was the single biggest detractor and detriment to every decision we made, and ultimately, completion of the project or mission at hand. I believe that the "human condition" will likely be the worst impediment to even the best and most functional project methodologies.
ReplyDeleteProbably a very simple, but practical way to manage the human condition(s), and ensure that the full benefit of strategic planning and SWOT is efficient, and sincerely employed, would be a "two-person system", whereby which no less than two independent entities reviewed any SWOT before it was approved.
Always call on a "fresh pair of eyes", and "trust, but verify".
Are there other strategic methods that can be used? Pf. Forman
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