Syllabus Strategic Planning
Syllabus Strategic Planning
Syllabus Strategic Planning
COURSE SYLLABUS
DM 214
STRATEGIC PLANNING
I. Course Description:
This course takes you through a series steps needed to develop and
complete a strategic plan. It also provides you with the techniques and tools
necessary for implementing actions-flowing from the strategic planning
process. Strategic planning and implementation in addition to content and
theory. In the introduction of the course we will focus on the major
components of strategic planning. We will consider the importance of creating
a vission and mission statement early in the process and learn about
stakeholders in depth by conducting a stakeholders analysis. We will discuss
the various methods that organization can use to determine their key strategic
issues and learn how to develop goals and objectives that follow from these.
You will then develop specific strategies and action plans to address those
goals. The final chapter include the implementation steps of strategic
planning, such as scheduling and budgeting, as well as critical assessment of
the plan implentation.
1. Strategizing
a. Adaptive Strategizing
b. Ideological Strategizing
c. Creative Strategizing
d. Rational, Sequential and Analytical Strategizing
e. Fourteen F” of Effective Strategies
2. Strategic Planning Process
a. Macro Environment
a.1 Mapping the Terrain
a.2 Critical Thinking
a.3 Moving Through the Terrain: Strategies and Tactics
a.4 Forecasting and Scenario Setting
c. Market Analysis
c.1 Actual Demand and Supply
c.2 Potential Demand and Supply Analysis
c.3 Product Substitutes and Market Implications
c.4 Trend Analysis and Determination of Critical Variables
c.5 Market Traits, Characteristics and Consumer Behavior
a. Adaptive Strategizing
b. Creative Strategizing
c. Ideological Strategizing
d. Rational Strategizing
e. Strategy Evaluation
7. Organizing
a. Organizational Diagnosis
b. Organizational Design
b.1 Organizing for Customers
b.2 Organizing for Operations
b.3 Organizing for Suppliers
b.4 Organizing for Support Services
b.5 Organizational Structuring
8. Organizational Development
a. Direction Setting
b. Competency and Capability Building
c. Culture Nurturance
d. Installing Systems, Processes and Procedures
e. Achieving the VSOP Fit
f. Morale Raising
g. Provision of Proper Guidance
To pass the course, the students should have complied with the
following:
Theroux, J. (2011). Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Ice Cream Inc.: Keeping
The Mission(s) Alive. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing.
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