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Strategic Planning Guide
Strategic Planning Guide
Strategic Planning Guide
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Strategic Planning Guide

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The strategic planning guide provides:

* Step-by- step approach to conduct strategic planning for higher education institutions, companies, non-profit organizations and government agencies.

* Proven and best practices methodology and tools.

* Detailed instruction for strategic planning sessions and workshops.

* Know- how on conducting , facilitating, and leading strategic planning sessions, workshops and seminars.

* Templates and forms required for strategic planning sessions, workshops and deliverables.

* Illustrations with examples drawn from leading international organizations.

* Strategic planning challenges and lessons learned.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateAug 27, 2013
ISBN9781466999152
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    Strategic Planning Guide - Isam Y. Al-Filali

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    Library of Congress Control Number: 2013911493

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    Preface

    This guide is the outcome of meticulous efforts of years of preparation and presentation in workshops and training sessions at universities, government agencies and business entities in Saudi Arabia and neighboring countries. The guide helped many organizations in different strategic planning phases. Here are some of what distinguished scholars have said about the scope and merits of the guide:

    Dr. Thomas Saaty

    University Professor, Katz Graduate School of Business,

    University of Pittsburgh

    After reviewing the strategic planning guide in its entirety, it is clear that the strategic visioning and planning process that you have developed would be greatly helpful in development of strategic plans for governmental and non-governmental organizations.

    We agree with you wholeheartedly that a strategic planning process must have a clear multi- criteria driven evaluation framework in order to assess strategic opportunities, and to evaluate which potential areas of investment best align to the strategic priorities of the group. As you know already, for a planning process to be effective it must be operationalized and executed.

    Your approach would work very well in tandem with the decision analysis process, which I have developed.

    April 29, 2013

    David A. Dowell

    Vice Provost and Director of Strategic Planning

    CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH

    DIVISION OF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

    I have reviewed the PowerPoint slide presentation entitled, Strategic Planning Process, prepared by Prof. Isam Yahia Al-Filali. The slide presentation covers the strategic cycle, preparing for strategic planning, establishing strategic vision, developing strategies, implementation and evaluation. I find the slide show to be a fully credible presentation of the process of strategic planning as practiced in the United States currently in many organizations and on par with many other similar presentations of strategic planning I have seen. The guide represents a valuable resource for strategic planners and a road map for strategic planning committees in government, business and non-profit organizations and especially in institutions of higher learning. The concise, step-by-step presentation is helpful to the expert and the clarity and sufficient details of the Guide makes it informative to the novice. The Guide can be used in developing implementable strategic plans for small as well as large entities. After a review of the Guide, I have no hesitation in endorsing it, as a viable approach for strategic planning.

    February 21, 2013

    Prof. Bryan Coutain

    Department of Political Science

    College of Arts & Science

    University of Kentucky,

    Lexington, KY

    The presentation is similarly remarkable in its external validity- that is, the insights and instructions are applicable to a range of organizations beyond educational institutions. In this regard, the presentation fulfills the author’s objective to provide a step -by- step approach to conduct strategic planning for higher education institutions, companies, non-profit and government agencies.

    The presentation is an extraordinarily detailed and insightful how to manual for organizational excellence. It even provides new insights into the intuitive by providing very clear definitions of familiar concepts and clearly specifying how to manage the concomitant associated difficulties. An example is risk. Specifying the types of risks and different strategies to overcome each was particularly insightful. The definition of human capital planning as having the right people in the right place at the right time with the right skills is the most succinct and clearest explanation I have seen. The discussion on Key Performance Indicator (KPI), and how to access organizational effectiveness, is masterful—clear, practical, and implementable across organizations.

    January 1, 2012

    Dr. Giulio M. Gallarotti

    Professor of Government and Tutor in the College of Social Studies

    Wesleyan University

    Church Street Middletown, CT

    Webpage: http://ggallarotti.faculty.wesleyan.edu/

    I have now painstakingly looked through Prof. Isam Yahia Al-Filali Strategic Planning Guide and find it to be an excellent plan. I endorse it strongly. It is wonderfully detailed: no important strategic requirement has been left out. It also effectively uses examples from the world of business to illuminate the theoretical points of the plan. I think this would be an excellent guide for an ambitious organization, whether government, business, non-profit, or educational.

    December 12, 2011

    Foreword

    For several decades, the world has been subsisting in the society of information, in which data and technology play a major role in the process of modern production, which is characterized by intensive production of knowledge. With the mounting of human knowledge, global economy turned to an economy based on scientific knowledge. In this knowledge-based economy knowledge achieved the main bulk of the added value. The key of this knowledge is innovation and technology. Currently, the distance between the emergence of new scientific knowledge and the actual application in practical use has been narrowed.

    The extraordinary speed with which the economic change occurs, creates a kind of challenge to all nations-even the developed ones - in addition to the growing role of science and technology in the development of communities. This role is increasingly important as the world enters the era of knowledge, during which ideologies were dropped, while knowledge and technologies emerged.

    The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been living

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