Morrisey on Planning Vol. 1 : Building Your

The best briefs on strategic planningThree Volume SeriesPlan your work and work your plan. In these three brief, very usable volumes, George L. Morrisey--long recognized as a master in the field--offers his insights on the process of strategic thinking, and tactical and strategic planning. Each volume is valuable on its own; together, they represent an unprecedented resource no informed manager should be without. Drawing on examples from individual departments and work units as well as from the perspective of the total organization, Morrisey's series provides practical advice for all types of planning at any level of an organization.

George L. Morrisey is the author of Morrisey on Planning, A Guide to Strategic Thinking: Building Your Planning Foundation, published by Wiley.

Introduction to the Series

xiii

Preface

xvii

The Author

xxi

What's This All About? A Foundation for Your Strategic Planning

1

(10)

The Planning Continuum

2

(1)

What Is Strategic Thinking and Why Is It Important?

2

(2)

The Planning Process

3

(1)

What Is Long-Range Planning and Why Is It Important?

4

(1)

What Is Tactical Planning And Why Is It Important?

5

(1)

What's Involved In the Strategic Thinking Process?

6

(2)

Where Does Strategic Thinking Fit with Other Current Approaches?

8

(2)

In Summary

10

(1)

Who Are Your Strategic Thinkers and How Should They Function?

11

(10)

What Is the Unit President Concept?

11

(1)

Who Does What In Strategic Thinking?

12

(3)

How Much Time Is Required?

15

(1)

How Do We Get Other Important Stakeholders Involved?

16

(3)

Can Strategic Thinking Be Used for Team Building?

19

(1)

In Summary

19

(2)

But First, What Are Your Strategic Values?

21

(14)

Why Is Agreement On Our Strategic Values Important?

21

(1)

What Are Some Specific Strategic Values?

22

(5)

How Do We Assess Our Strategic Values?

27

(4)

Assessment of Strategic Values

28

(1)

Assessment of Strategic Values (Example)

29

(2)

How Should We Use This List of Strategic Values?

31

(1)

In Summary

32

(3)

Who Are You and How Will You Function? (Part One) Developing Your Organization's Mission

35

(22)

Why Do We Need a Mission Statement?

36

(1)

Who Is Involved in the Development of Our Mission Statement?

37

(1)

What Are the Questions We Should Address?

38

(6)

How Do We Prepare Our Mission Statement?

44

(4)

What Are Some Examples of Organizations' Mission Statements?

48

(5)

In Summary

53

(4)

Worksheet for Clarifying Your Organization's Mission

55

(1)

Worksheet for Reviewing and Evaluating Your Draft Mission Statement

56

(1)

Who Are You and How Will You Function? (Part Two) Developing Your Unit's Roles and Missions

57

(12)

Why Should There Be a Statement of Roles and Mission for Each Separate Unit?

57

(1)

Where Does My Unit's Statement of Roles and Missions Originate?

58

(2)

Worksheet for Clarifying Unit Roles and Missions

59

(1)

How Should Unit Statement Be Prepared?

60

(1)

Key Questions for Evaluating Unit Roles and Missions

60

(1)

What Are Some Examples of Unit Roles and Missions Statements?

61

(6)

In Summary

67

(2)

What Should Be Your Future? Creating Your Strategic Vision

69

(10)

What Is Vision and Why Is It Important?

69

(3)

How Do We Develop Our Vision Separately from Our Mission?

72

(3)

Sample Vision Statements

75

(1)

How Do We Develop Our Vision From Our Mission?

75

(1)

How Do We Communicate Our Vision?

76

(1)

In Summary

77

(2)

Where Are You Going? Formulating Your Strategy

79

(20)

What Is Strategy and Why Is It Important?

79

(2)

How Should We Approach Strategy?

81

(1)

The Driving Force Approach

82

(12)

Strategic Areas Decision Matrix

90

(1)

Strategic Areas Matrix (Example)

91

(3)

The Questioning Approach

94

(3)

When Do We Change Our Strategy?

97

(1)

In Summary

97

(2)

What Happens Next? Building a Bridge to the Rest of Your Planning Process

99

(8)

What Do We Do with the Results of Our Strategic Thinking?

99

(1)

Are We Ready to Proceed with Long-Range Planning?

100

(2)

Are We Ready to Proceed with Tactical Planning?

102

(2)

When and How Do We Reassess Our Strategic Thinking?

104

(1)

In Summary

105

(2)

The Planning Process

106

(1)

Annotated Resources

107

(8)

Index

115

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