Strategic Operational Planning

Effective strategic planning is essential to ensure the achievement of an organisation’s operational goals. This course will give you the tools and techniques required to participate in strategic operational planning within an organisation. It will use a variety of practical and theoretical teaching methods, including case studies, to ensure the most effective learning for participants.

Objective

By completing this course participants will be able to:

• Understand existing difficulties with strategic planning
• Develop a strategic planning procedure in an organisation and be able to ‘sell’ it to the organisation
• Create a sustainable mission, value, and vision and for an organisation
• Make evaluations and reports of an organisation’s structure and performance
• Make evaluations and reports of an organisation’s position with clients and competitors and identify where advancements can be made
• Conduct a VRIO analysis
• Conduct a SWOT analysis and make decisions for the organisation
• Undertake scenario planning
• Create an Executive Summary
• Translate an organisation’s goal into workable and staged actions

Course Outline

Introduction and Overview

• Difference between strategic planning and strategic operational planning
• Identifying how strategies coexist in an organisation
• Using strategy to extract and analyse valuable data

• Identifying weaknesses in current planning strategies
• Structure of an ideal strategic plan
• Troubleshooting weaknesses to improve strategic operational planning

Missions, Values and Visions

• Mission or vision?
• Developing a core value, mission, and vision for an organisation
• Keeping values central to strategic planning
• Importance in having an end goal in strategic operational planning
• Case study

Eye on the competition

• Micro and macro environments
• How external changes impact an organisation
• Reviewing and keeping strategic operational plans flexible
• VRIO Analysis
• C.O.S.M.I.C

Internal reviews

• Performing an internal assessment
• Identifying an organisation’s strengths and weaknesses
• Core Competencies
• Understanding an organisational culture

Strategic decision making

• Data Synthesis, Insight, and Creativity
• Conducting a SWOT Analysis
• Making use of your SWOT Analysis
• What does your organisational structure look like?
• What does success look like?
• Holistic decision making

Strategic action plans

• What makes a quality strategic action plan?
• Creating a strategic action plan
• What is an Executive Summary?
• Case study

Gaining buy-in for a Strategic Operational Plan

• Who are key stakeholders?
• Keeping flexible for different opinions
• Motivation through communication
• Ensuring the organisation buys into the plan
• Including achievable progression milestones in plans