Product Description

Strategic Planning for Success offers you a pragmatic guide to the design and development of practical and pragmatic strategic thinking and organizational alignment that will yield high-impact results and measurably add value to you, your organization, your clients, and society. Unlike other books on the topic, this volume goes beyond simply detailing the tools and techniques of design and development by clearly showing how to align what you do with what will be most valuable to all stakeholders. Using this unique approach will yield extraordinary results adding measurable value that flows from individual performance accomplishment to organizational and societal contributions.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #723404 in Books
• Published on: 2003-03-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 416 pages

Review
"If your looking for a straightforward approach to strategic planning, then I recommend Strategic Planning for Success." (IACET, May 9, 2003)

"Most line managers would benefit form studying this book." (Business Process Trends, June 2003)

"If your looking for a straightforward approach to strategic planning, then I recommend Strategic Planning for Success." (IACET, May 9, 2003) "Most line managers would benefit form studying this book." (Business Process Trends, June 2003)

Review
"Dr. Roger Kaufman and his team provide a handbook that helps all organizations answer, 'What value do we add?' 'How do we measure performance and results or critical success factors?' Strategic planning questions are models of essential tools for leaders of change."
— Frances Hesselbein, chairman, board of governors, The Drucker Foundation

"Strategic Planning for Success is a thoroughly researched and robust collection of concepts and principles that can add value to management planning and task execution at organizations large and small. I highly recommend it to managers who don't want to be left behind in today's era of dynamic change."
— Wess Roberts, author, Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun

"Kaufman, Oakley-Brown, Watkins, and Leigh give every organizational leader a new map for driving across the land we call 'the future.' Clear, organized, and focused— a must have!"
— Jim Hill, director, Sun Microsystems

"This book offers an effective and comprehensive guide for those who design, evaluate, and implement strategic plans. Its strength is its clarity, its holistic approach, and its focus on results. Exceptionally useful for anyone engaged in positioning complex enterprises for future success."
— John V. Lombardi, chancellor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

"Strategic Planning for Success offers clear, organized and direct answers to vital and focused planning questions."
— Richard E. Clark, professor, Educational Psychology and Technology, University of Southern California

From the Inside Flap
We depend on organizations— airlines, drug manufacturers, supermarkets, energy suppliers— to put our safety, survival, and quality of life as their top purpose. Without this assurance to consumers, these companies would soon go out of business. And by putting the concerns of society first these organizations thrive in the private and public sectors. The question is "How can all organizations be transformed so the needs of the client and ultimately society are at the top of their priority lists?"
Strategic Planning for Success offers you a pragmatic guide to the design and development of practical and pragmatic strategic thinking and organizational alignment that will yield high-impact results and measurably add value to you, your organization, your clients, and society. Unlike other books on the topic, this volume goes beyond simply detailing the tools and techniques of design and development by clearly showing how to align what you do with what will be most valuable to all stakeholders. Using this unique approach will yield extraordinary results adding measurable value that flows from individual performance accomplishment to organizational and societal contributions.
Written by the internationally-renowned strategic planning experts Roger Kaufman, Hugh Oakley-Brown, Ryan Watkins, and Doug Leigh, Strategic Planning for Success is a practical, applications-oriented guide that shows how to think strategically and goes on to define what to deliver, to whom, and why. The book focuses on what an organization must do and deliver to have continuing success and is based on practical applications used world-wide in both the private and public sectors. Copublished with the International Society for Performance Improvement, this hands-on guide is filled with concepts, tools, and practical exercises designed for operational application including:

• Guided practice, replete with job aids, checklists, and activities
• A CD-ROM that features PowerPoint presentations for each chapter, plus additional activities, case studies, and customizable job aids, checklists, and exercises
• Guidelines for system (not just systems) thinking, planning, design, development, test, revision, and application¾not just pieces of organizational or human performance improvement
• Useful, pragmatic, and proven tools and concepts, including needs assessment, needs analysis, and costs-consequences analysis

Strategic Planning for Success will show you how to define, deliver, develop, and promote genuine performance improvement within your organization.

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Customer Reviews

Working towards a future we can all share
This is a practical guide that dares to take you far beyond the next quarterly results. A challenge to work towards a future that we can all share - and a supportive and detailed framework to help you and your organization thrive as you create it.

The book is a real compendium of Mega Planning. It goes well beyond previous texts and shows how many other issues become important when attempting a serious plan for the future. Suddenly we are confronted with a range of stakeholders, internal and external, some of whom we might rather not remember, and many of whom will be resistant to real change and would prefer a strategic plan that sleeps peacefully in the filing cabinet for five years. So this book talks a lot about Creating Change (as opposed to merely Managing Change), the roles required and the kinds of resistance that may be met. In the same vein it covers every aspect of strategic planning, from paradigms and leadership to mental models.

To mention just a few of the topics that caught my attention: the contrast and the interplay between systems and system thinking; the importance of feedback between all parties; the extended problem solving method; how to scan to find the payoffs in planning (and so make strategy more attractive); the ongoing balance between process (what you're doing) and the results you are aiming for (which can sometimes be undercut by the process you use).

There are some important extensions of models - Albrecht's Four Business Logics become six. There are quotes and classical definitions that are very useful, sometimes humourous.

Remembering that half the effort of Mega Planning is to build alliances with key players who are not used to thinking beyond their own success (usually immediate), included is a PowerPoint display and a neat Appendix on the new paradigms of teaching (should be in every place of learning). And, or course, the Code of Conduct is a challenge to all practitioners, just as this whole book is a challenge to all of us who want there to be life beyond the next quarter.

Ronald Forbes, PhD
Leaderskill Group Pty Ltd

The most complete book on Megaplanning to date
I have been using this book as a guide for strategic planning in several business projects and with my PhD and MBA students.

It is a complete and practical guide to develop and implement a strategic plan focused on identifying measurable positive social contributions. Social value added is the key factor for sustainable and sustained business success.

Kaufman explains with clarity and eloquent examples how organizations can create their own future by helping their clients, markets and communities to succeed. That is not only an ethical imperative, but good business sense: guiding a company by stock value metrics alone is as sensible as using a compass on a roller-coaster.

With Kaufman's tools and methodology, value-sustracting business schemes such as Enron's or World Comm become evident without "whistle-blowers"

Business is about value creation, and this book is the best tool available to do it I know.

good book,
This is a good book, my professor really likes it. The book isn't the easiest read, but the cd really helps.