
The Strategic Planning Workbook
Neville Lake(Author)
Kogan Page Ltd (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 3. February 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-7494-4509-6 (ISBN)
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Description
The Strategic Planning Workbook is a practical guide that any manager can pick up and immediately use to implement a strategic plan. Now in its second edition, it has been fully updated and includes new material on crafting mission, vision and value. It continues to provide the concepts needed to perform the thinking, the tools to gather the necessary information, the techniques to make a decision and the frameworks to translate conclusions into action plans.
Refreshingly free of all the usual grand business models peddled by consultants and academics, this workbook will not intimidate those who shrink in horror at the mention of strategic planning! In a clear and accessible style Neville Lake draws on a mixture of his own diagnostic tools, analytical techniques and decision-making processes, guiding the reader through the four key stages involved in startegic planning:
Strategic thinking (insight)
Collecting the right data (information)
Making the right decisions (imperatives)
Making the difference (implementation)
Refreshingly free of all the usual grand business models peddled by consultants and academics, this workbook will not intimidate those who shrink in horror at the mention of strategic planning! In a clear and accessible style Neville Lake draws on a mixture of his own diagnostic tools, analytical techniques and decision-making processes, guiding the reader through the four key stages involved in startegic planning:
Strategic thinking (insight)
Collecting the right data (information)
Making the right decisions (imperatives)
Making the difference (implementation)
Reviews / Votes
"Shows readers how to put together strategy so that their business can realise its full potential." Call Centre Focus Magazine "Shows readers how to put together a strategy so that their business can realise its full potential." Risk UK "Workbook designed for busy organization managers provides tools for strategic planning." Journal of Economic Literature "Takes the reader through all the key steps from identifying possibilities to actual implementation." Abstracts of Public Administration, Development and the EnvironmentMore details
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
437 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7494-4509-6 (9780749445096)
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Person
Neville Lake has had a long and successful business career, during which he has worked for some of the world's top consulting firms. A registered psychologist, Neville has been a business and strategic consultant for over 17 years, has visited over 50 world best-practice organizations and has consulted to over 80 businesses.
Content
Strategic thinking; Understanding the startegic context; Understanding your business; Decision making; Action planning; Putting it in writing; Implementation; Tricks and traps; Worksheets.
Strategic thinking; Understanding the startegic context; Understanding your business; Decision making; Action planning; Putting it in writing; Implementation; Tricks and traps; Worksheets.