Strategic planning can sometimes be difficult to explain. This diagram I developed has helped me easily explain the process I call strategic planning for dummies.

Strategic planning for dummies

The outside circle represents the process of strategic planning.

• Plan what you want to do

• Train and communicate to those who will carry out the plan

• Execute the plan

• Review/evaluate what you accomplished

The three questions to evaluate how well you are doing are these (the triangle):

• What? (do you have a clear target, goals, mission?)

• How? (do you have simple and effective systems in place to accomplish your goals?)

• Who? (are you using unified teams of people to accomplish your goals?)

Here’s the diagram.

Related posts. Strategic Planning for Dummies, part 2.