ABSTRACT
KEYNOTE: Using Government Regulations of Business to Strategically Manage the Environment Strategic management, the achievement of long-term organizational goals, is not a tidy business. It is not that managers do not want to be neat; it is just that the managerial environment, especially in the public sector, is inherently and notoriously lacking in neatness. It is not exactly what the Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759-1796) had in mind when he said that the “best laid schemes of mice and men” often go awry; it is rather that these plans are seldom presented in comprehensive documents, if they exist at all. Often the overall strategy exists only as a campaign
speech, a vague document, or an unwritten philosophy. The full implementation of a strategic plan usually takes many years, sometimes decades or even more. The usefulness of a strategic plan is that it provides a long-term doctrine, the overall guidance, so essential for short-term, or tactical, management decisions.
