How to Create a Strategic Action Plan?

How to Create a Strategic Action Plan?

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  ONTARGET STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN BANG ONTARGET Created by Paul Alves CTH – CTH 2014-15
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  ONTARGET 2  Address key strategicgoals  Help measure progress over time  Delivers practical steps & resources  Assures that your strategic objectives are implemented What's a strategic action plan? Its a document that identifies all required steps to achieve the strategic goals
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  ONTARGET 3 Why developing astrategic action plan? Because it allows you to craft your company's: Credibility Responsibility Awareness Feasibility Traceability
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  ONTARGET 4 When should youdevelop one? After developing your:  Mission  Objectives/Goals  Strategy plan  Implement pilot  Revise monthly/Quarter
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  ONTARGET 5 What to includein your action plan ? 1. Determine who should be included. 2. Determine what processes should be included. 3. Develop action plan with key steps for all proposed changes. 4. Explain why - organise a group planning 5. Assign team leaders for phases and priorities. 6. Release daily or/and weekly updates, keep everyone updated. 7. Keep system track of what has been achieved what is not, the ongoing, postpone, etc. 8. Create meetings for every new milestone - reports.. 9. Celebrate each (completed) milestone.
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  ONTARGET 6 What are thekey steps to consider?  Who will carry it out?  By when and for how long?  What resources are needed?  What change or action will occur?  How often should you communicate?  Who should communicate and what?
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  ONTARGET 7 Who should youconsider?  Everyone directly involved in the project  Managers - all departments  Influential people/ Teams / Ground floor  Directors/ Stakeholders  Different or/and linked departments  Avoid no can do attitude (negative people)
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  ONTARGET 8 How to makeyour action plan work? To make it work the action plan should be:  Concise  Feasible  Inspiring  Clear with participant's names  Complete with start and end dates  Updated Regularly
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  ONTARGET 9 How and Whento start? Your action plan should be based on your Mission or about How we work statement! Then go to identified audience and set your priority goals. You'll see that the process should work all together. Following the: Scenario Planning It is vital if you're trying to reshape your business future. Scenario Planning can really help business people to make sense of what they're trying to achieve.. You can become a master at developing strategy and really making it work!
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  ONTARGET 10 How to getthere? All scenario planning should bring honest assumptions into play and accept diversity from others. This will help you see and increase your range of options. Bear in mind that scenario focus discussion depends on your ultimate objective. Use OLD as a framework. a) Objectivity: How does my product/service work in practice? What is my major strength? b) Learn: What can we learn about our customers? What can we learn about the competition? c) Develop Strategy: What other options / ways have we? How flexible is our strategy?
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