... Strategic planning Organizational learning Agile methodology Continuous improvement Strategic agility Red queen effect Van Valen (1973) Red Queen hypothesis describes competitive coevolution: species must continuously adapt merely to maintain relative fitness against equally evolving...

...Jabulani Dhlamini Purpose It is argued that “failure to plan is planning to fail,” in this regard, this study provides an understanding of the usefulness of strategic planning as a management practice in the 21st century. Insights on the key developments, challenges and opportunities associated...

...Jabulani Dhlamini Purpose The study provides an understanding of strategic planning through an assessment of its definitions, the planning process, and spells-out the outcomes as well as the associated competitive advantage from practicing strategic planning. Despite the popularity of strategic...

... and usage of five other, already existing, business terms – “Strategic Management,” “Strategic Planning Process,” “Strategic Plan,” “Realized Strategy,” and “Business Model.” Originality/value This paper identifies the negative effects of the misuse of the term strategy and offers clear, concise...

... success and can develop a comprehensive strategic plan that adapts to changes and uncertainties in the environment. Design/methodology/approach Extant literature and available tools are explored to develop a usable framework in conducting an extensive SWOT analysis as related to the four knowledge...

... at: timothy.galpin@sbs.ox.ac.uk © Emerald Publishing Limited 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Strategy Strategic planning Strategy execution The best strategy is the one you can implement. No matter how brilliant or elegant a strategy is, it is worthless until...

... is the responsibility of all levels of the organization and all departments. Leaders need to promote a bottom-up culture of innovation that informs the emerging strategic planning. In such a culture, every line manager and front-line employee understands that innovation is often envisioned as a result of unexpected...

...Nicolas Kachaner; Kermit King; Sam Stewart Purpose The authors identify the practices that the companies that get the most benefit from their strategic-planning activities have in common: Design/methodology/approach The authors describe how successful companies achieve better strategic...

... indicators that signal whether a particular scenario or trends within a scenario are emerging. Gerald Harris can be contacted at: gerald@artofquantumplanning.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Strategic planning Scenario development Scenario learning Continuous learning...

... need both strategy development and business model innovation to adapt and thrive as conditions change. Stan Abraham can be contacted at: scabraham@roadrunner.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Business model innovation Strategy development Strategic planning Strategic...

...John Sterling; Dave Rader Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report on the Association for Strategic Planning Conference. Design/methodology/approach The paper provides a conference report for the 2012 Association for Strategic Planning Conference, held in Lincolnshire...

... to approach it without damaging strategy and profitability. Futhermore he offers advice on managing the planning process itself. Practical implications Porter's advice on successful strategic planning: leaders need to bring together the whole team responsible for a particular business...

...Randall Rollinson Purpose The author believes that corporate practitioners and the leaders who rely on them stand to gain from supporting a training and certification program in strategic planning and strategic management. this paper aims to address this issue. Design/methodology...

... The survey conducted in July 2009 and sponsored by the Association for Strategic Planning, sampled 190 US managers involved in strategic planning within organizations. The survey assessed the role strategic planning played during the recent financial crisis. Findings Key findings include...

... Outsourcing Partnership Call centres Strategic planning When an important initiative becomes mired in a conflict of interests and stalls, the risk to the whole organization mounts. To address such situations, leaders need to cultivate their organization's readiness and ability to change quickly...

.... Originality/value By defining the critical six questions and revealing the ego traps and how to avoid them the paper provides a valuable learning guide and checklist for top management. Paul Strebel can be contacted at: Strebel@imd.ch © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Strategic...

...Doug Randall Purpose This paper aims to argue that the reason most organizations get blindsided by market transformations is that they undertake strategic planning processes – like scenario development –without seeing them as a unique opportunity for learning about and exploring multiple...

... at: venkatr@umich.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Value added Modelling Strategic planning 360‐degree feedback Worldwide web Innovation Vineet Nayar There's a story about a physics student who interrupted a test being given by Albert Einstein to complain, “Professor...

... in light of weak signals and market developments. And the second is to define the specific activities that bring inherently‐abstract strategies to life in the rough and tumble of day‐to‐day business realities. Leading companies are replacing cumbersome template‐ and budget‐driven “strategic planning...

...Stan Abraham This report on the Fifth Annual Conference of the Association of Strategic Planning (ASP), “Strategy in action: lessons from practice,” was held in Long Beach, California. This report covers the two keynote speakers plus highlights from a selection of the presentations (for more...