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http://www.managementhelp.org/plan_dec/str_plan/basics.htm
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- Gives the basic definition of strategic planning in a simple and affective manner.
- This is a well written article that gives you all the information you need to know about strategic planning. It also gives you different ways to look at strategic planning.
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| Site:
http://www.planware.org/strategicplan.htm
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- Talks a lot about business strategies.
- It has a complite explanation of the topic
- Entrepeneurs and business managers are often so preoccupied with immediate issues that they lose sight of their ultimate objectives. That's why a business review or preparation of a strategic plan is a virtual necessity.
- This website provides us with an introduction to strategic planning as well as a guide through the steps one must take to create a good strategic plan.
- A detailed explanation of strategic planning, values, mission statement and business department softwares of strategic planning.
- This is a site that basically helps people plan different things in their lives, with this link in particular talking about how to develop a specific business strategy to help their own personal business
- I foud this article really interesting and functional. I has aditinal links to related sunjects within the paragraphs. The article explains what that Developing a Strategic Plan is a simple report and should not be confused with business planning. The strategic plan sould be able to provide the basic base for desion making.
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http://www.nchv.org/docs/Organization%20Planning.8.03.pdf
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- Discusses the elements of the organization planning process as well as a brief question and answer section for key elements to help better understand the process.
- Great outline describing the planning process step by step.
- It describes which are the elements of ann organizational process
- I really like this site and how it is organized and complete
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_model
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- Wikipedia describes what a business model is as well as show the components of the business model
- This site provides an excellent outline of business modles as well as resources.
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| Site:
http://www.brint.org/WhyKMSFail.htm
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- There is a depth explaination about this topic including diagrams, illustrations and highlighted keywords to look for a pay closer attention to.
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| Site:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_Analysis
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- this site offer information on SWOT analysis, strategic and creative uses of SWOT analysis, internal ans external factors, some examples of SWOT's, errors that should be avoided, using SWOT in marketing and a lot of information, and links
- This is a good page that gives you information on SWOT analysis. It walks you through areas covered by it and guides you as to how to evaluate the areas and what to try and do with that information.
- This page explain all about the SWOT Analysis as
strategic planning method used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses,
Opportunities, and Threats involved in a project or in a business very
well
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| Site:
http://www.ebstrategy.com/
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- This web page provides information on e-business strategies and research while making it very easy to understand and find that information.
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| Site: http://www.futurestrat.com/scenario-methodology.htm
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This website talks about Futures Strategy Group Scenario Approach. It mentions that their scenario approach is unique and balanced. The approach focuses on three elements: rigor, creativity and practical results. These elements combine to achieve concrete results through specific actions.
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this is a brief brainstorm paragrapgh about different scenarios
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| Site: http://www.managementhelp.org/plan_dec/str_plan/str_plan.htm |
This site provides information regarding planning and links specifically tailered for non-profit organizations.
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This article provides a broad explanation of what strategic planning and the differences between strategic planning for nonprofit and for-profit organizations.
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| Site:
http://www.planware.org/strategicplan.htm |
Most businesses or organization do not take the time to create or follow a strategic business plan. Doing so could lead a company to become much more successful than putting more emphasis on other projects. Strategic planning is the framework to a successful venture and can help with the decision making process and focus on matter that the company forsees with great importance.
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This website is great because it is highly informative. It provides a detailed definition about what development of Business strategy is. Further it emphasizes on how different techniques can be used to create a successful strategic plan for a business.
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it explains and helps you build your own strategic plan.
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| Site: http://www.managementhelp.org/plan_dec/str_plan/str_plan.htm |
Wow i didnt know this kind of help can be obtained in the internet. they focus on Boards of Directors, Employee Performance Management, Finances, Leadership, Marketing, Organizations, Organizational Change and Development, Staffing, Strategic Planning and also Training and Development. This is pretty much the whole shabang of world international business.
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| Site: http://www.quickmba.com/strategy/swot/ |
Introduction to the SWOT analysis
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This website gives a brief overview of what is SWOT and how you can apply it. This is not for in depth study of the SWOT but more of a quick review or just if you want to know what it is.
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This is a very informative article and provides a good in-depth overview of the components of a SWOT Analysis.
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he SWOT analysis provides information that is helpful in matching the firm's resources and capabilities to the competitive environment in which it operates. As such, it is instrumental in strategy formulation and selection
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| Site:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_planning |
A complete site that defines the term well and gives some examples. It gieves methodology, a situation analysis that helps you understand the concept and much more.
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This website gives you the definition of strategic planning and the different approaches to strategic planning.
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This is a useful website and is pretty
interesting.
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Strategic planning is an organization's process of
defining its strategy and making decisions on allocating its resources
to pursue this strategy, including its goals, policies and strategies.
In the wikepidia encyclopedia it gives a detailed explanation including
examples of stategic planning. This website is great on researchng
information on its goals objectives and targets.
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| Site:
http://www.cod.edu/it/itplan/planproc.htm |
- This webpage give a good definition of IT planning process. It gives you the overview, the planning model, the planning methodology, among other things. Each one explained with detail and very clear.
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| Site:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/396845/Developing-BusinessIT-Strategies |
- This websites helps you understand what is the purpose of Developing Business/It strategies. Its is a very helpful website
- an extense explanation of business strategy
- This article is interesting because emphasizez in the importance of planning process of I/T
- I think that this website gives you alot of in
depth information about how business strategies come about in todays
society.
- it emphasizes the importance of the planning process in developing IT/business strategies, and the challenges that arise when introducing the new e-business strategies into an organization
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| Site:
http://www.themanager.org/models/SWOT.htm |
- The article talks about SWOT it's divided in two parts 1)Description of the Model, and 2) Practical experiences from working in the SWOT. It help you understand more the SWOT model and has some examples
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| Site:
http://www.iorg.com/papers/knowledge.html |
- While the reading was short and sweet, it was helpful. The extra explanations and terms dealing with knowledge management systems made the topic a bit clearer. The only thing that I didn't like as much is that it lacked a bit of detail, it was quite broad.
- The reading was short and straight to the point along with being very helpful. i would have appreciated this article much more if it would have been explained more in deatil. Otherwise made thing more clear on the top at hand.
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| Site:
http://www.managementhelp.org/plan_dec/str_plan/str_plan.htm |
- This website explain how to develop a strategic planning in organizations
- strategic planning determines where an organization is going over the next year or more, how it's going to get there and how it'll know if it got there or not. The focus of a strategic plan is usually on the entire organization, while the focus of a business plan is usually on a particular product, service or program.
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| Site:
http://www.chcf.org/press/view.cfm?itemID=19906 |
- This websites describes how information technology strategies that work for the small physician office are finally emerging as traditional barriers like cost and complexity and they are begining to diminish, it was interesting to view and read.
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| Site:
http://www.itstrategiesint.com/ |
- Kind of interesting! this website is about a firms that specializes in providing effective advice to different firms.
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| Site:
http://www.systems-thinking.org/kmgmt/kmgmt.htm |
- this site on knowledge management is very detailed so you can understand knowledge management. this website explains what data is and how a knowledge system interprests its meaning and how it used in a knowledge base. i recomend this website as a base to learn about knowledge management
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| Site:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_integrator |
- In IT, system integrators integrate multiple systems for inputting, processing, interpreting, storing, and categorizing data. For example, a system integrator may build an IT solution integrating an Oracle-based inventory tracking system, a document management system, a Microsoft CRM system, a group of Panasonic scanners, and a Rimage storage system to produce an overall solution for the customer.
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| Site:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_planning |
- I like the website because it breaks down the whole concep of what operational plnning really is in simple terms.Where are we now?
Where do we want to be?
How do we get there?
How do we measure our progress
- Well-organized.
- This website explains with great detail about business operational planning; its clear objectives, activities to be delivered, quality standards, desired outcomes, staffing and resource requirements, implementation timetables and its process for monitoring progress.
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| Site:
http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTMC_05.htm |
- it gives a basic explanation of the SWOT analysis... and the questions to ask when making SWOT analysis to your business
- I liked this website becasue it broke down SWOT and have you questions to think about it and maybe even improve what you are already doing.
- gives an insight as to how the swot is implemented in a business.
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| Site:
http://www.managementhelp.org/plan_dec/str_plan/basics.htm |
- gives the basic definition about strategic planning and is easy to navigate
- Gives a brief description of strategic planning. this site also give three different ways to look at strategic planning;Strategic Analysis,Setting Strategic Direction and Action Planning. The article goes into more detail about these three ways of looking at strategic planning
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| Site:
http://www.nchv.org/docs/Organization%20Planning.8.03.pdf |
- This article provides information on how to use organizational planning processes. It outlines the basic information needed to start and also lays out how your business will look 3 years from now.
- On this site you can find the iformation about elements o Organization Process, also your Orgamization three years from now, Mission statment, and Considiration in making a planning calender.
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| Site:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/4545650/Developing-BusinessIT-Strategies |
- This page contains a similar information as the
lecture slides in which the importance of the IT in developing a
business cannot be desrigard. It explain the benefits of IT in the
development of a business utilizing tactical management, planning for a
competitive advantage, Strategic opportunity matrix, SWOT analysis, etc.
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| Site: www.kmworld.com |
- Knowledge management (KM) has repeatedly proven its ability to simultaneously improve service quality and reduce costs...
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| Site:
http://www.uncp.edu/home/marson/348_strategic_planning.html |
- Bryson (1988) defined strategic planning as a “disciplined effort to produce fundamental decisions and actions that shape and guide what an organization (or other entity) is, what it does, and why it does it” (p. 5). Barry (1986) viewed strategic planning as the “process of determining what an organization intends to be in the future and how it will get there” (p. 10). Pfeiffer, Goodstein, and Nolan (1986) viewed such planning as the “process by which the guiding members of an organization envision its future and develop the necessary procedures and operations to achieve that future” (p. 1).
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| Site:
http://www.itstrategiesint.com/ |
- Since we were discussing IT strategies and planning in this chapter i decided to look up an ITwebsite. IT Strategies International Corporation is a privately held global computer consulting firm incorporated in the State of Nevada in 1996 and headquartered in Las Vegas. The company provides expert, cost-effective consulting for both private companies and public organizations that require specialized information technology skills and/or in-house staff augmentation to take strategic advantage of information systems. IT Strategies provides services ranging from IT strategic planning, project management, seminars and education, business requirements analysis, system analysis and programming.They are a really neat company and I got to see all the examples of an IT run business. They even had government contracts.
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| Site:
http://www.quickmba.com/strategy/swot/ |
- I like this website because it has been of tremendous help to me in every business topic I need help. I like this site it explains what it is, what it does and how to apply it.
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| Site:
http://strategydevelopment.org/ |
- This site talks about the strategy development that advises companies to defend there markets and how to develop growth startegies.
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| Site:
http://www.doi.gov/hrm/WFPIManual.html |
- Planning for human resource needs is one of the greatest challenges facing managers and leaders. In order to meet this challenge, a uniform process that provides a disciplined approach for matching human resources with the anticipated needs of the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) and its bureaus is essential.
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| Site:
http://www.worksystems.com/services/strategic_planning.html |
- they said that Strategic planning is one of the most important responsibilities of the senior management of an organization... and people are the most important assets in a company.. and very few companies implement programs that help employees get their greatest potential..
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