Applied Strategic Planning: How to Develop a Plan That Really Works

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Summary: Very useful and comprehensive book
Review: I loved the organization of this book. It's like you are the CEO and are really organizing a new business from the scratch. The author uses a structured approach of applying strategic planning that makes a complex subject like this extremely simple to understand.

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Summary: Informative and highly useful for leaders and consultants.
Review: Provides an understanding of effective strategic planning processes. Offers a model for planning, with chapters devoted to each phase. Topics covered include: envisioning, culture, roles of the consultant, environmental monitoring, values scan, mission formulation, strategic business modeling, performance audit, gap analysis, integrating action plans, contingency planning, and implementation. This work is informative and highly useful for leaders and consultants.

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Summary: Informative and highly useful for leaders and consultants.
Review: The introduction gives very good overall review of the content. Each chapter gives excellent details to the components of the strategic planning process. Well worth the purchase price.

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Summary: A "MUST HAVE" for anyone involved in strategic planning
Review: The introduction gives very good overall review of the content. Each chapter gives excellent details to the components of the strategic planning process. Well worth the purchase price.

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Summary: Very good, plus...
Review: This book widely specifies WHAT to do in strategic planning but it hardly explains HOW to do it. What I expect when reading this kind of topics is not the concept but rather the application procedures and practical techniques for implementing those concepts in an effective and innovative way. In consequence, I found this book repetitive and non productive for planning specialists. However it may serve a lot to beginners and students.

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Summary: A sea of knowledge, one centimeter deep
Review: This book widely specifies WHAT to do in strategic planning but it hardly explains HOW to do it. What I expect when reading this kind of topics is not the concept but rather the application procedures and practical techniques for implementing those concepts in an effective and innovative way. In consequence, I found this book repetitive and non productive for planning specialists. However it may serve a lot to beginners and students.

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Summary: Very good, plus...
Review: This is a very good book. In addition to this, I recommend "Strategic Organizational Change" by Michael Beitler.

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Summary: Very good, plus...
Review: This is a very good book. In addition to this, I recommend "Strategic Organizational Change" by Michael Beitler.