_Strategic Planning is a management tool that helps an organization focus
its energy, to ensure that members of the organization are working
toward the same goals, to assess and adjust the organization's direction
in response to a changing environment.
In short,
strategic planning is a disciplined approach to produce fundamental
decisions and actions that shape and guide what an organization is, what
it does, and why it does it, with a focus on the future.
A simplified view of the strategic planning process is shown below:
