ABSTRACT
Strategic planning is extremely important to many organizations. €e process involves creating an understanding of how the organization dežnes itself and is typically handled by identifying and authoring an organizational mission statement. In addition, the process develops an organizational vision statement, which identižes the high level where the executive management wants the organization to be in the future. €e process
Introduction ......................................................................................................15 What is Strategic Planning? ............................................................................16 Program Life Cycle and Program Benežts Management ............................17 Pre-Program Preparations ..............................................................................18 Program Initiation ............................................................................................19 Program Setup ..................................................................................................21 Delivery of Program Benežts ..........................................................................27 Program Closure ..............................................................................................29 Benežts of Managing the Strategic Plan as a Program ................................29 Summary .......................................................................................................... 30 References ......................................................................................................... 30
cannot stop there. €e committee in charge of the strategic plan must create a “roadmap” on how the organization will achieve its vision. €e roadmap should include various levels of detail, down to the initi atives that will be acted upon to achieve the vision. For program managers, this process should sound fairly familiar since it is very similar to a disciplined approach to achieving program goals.
