What is the Process for Creating a Strategic Plan? Final
Creating a strategic plan is a structured progression from context to capital allocation—moving from understanding business demand to committing resources against competing priorities. At a high level, the process follows four stages: 1. Understanding → 2. Analysis → 3. Planning → 4. Action Each stage reduces a different type of uncertainty: Understanding clarifies direction Analysis […]
What is the Process for Creating a Strategic Plan? Part 3
It is a 4-step process: 1. Understanding → 2. Analysis → 3. Planning → 4. Action Step 3: Planning Now that you understand your needs and have analyzed scenarios to find your direction, you have the essence of your Strategic Facilities Plan (SFP). Understanding told you where you are. Analysis told you where you need […]
What is the Process for Creating a Strategic Plan? Part 2
It is a 4-step process: 1. Understanding → 2. Analysis → 3. Planning → 4. Action You cannot analyze what you do not understand. So once you have thoroughly completed Step 1, start the analysis. Now specifics come into play: How will you balance workplace demographics, manufacturing processes, organizational structure and culture, regulatory requirements, market […]
What is the Process for Creating a Strategic Plan? Part 1
Strategic facilities planning isn’t rocket science, but it’s not guesswork either. Get it wrong and you’ll watch productivity tank. Get it right and your organization hums like a well-oiled machine. Here’s the breakdown: Understanding Analysis Planning Action Step 1: Understanding – The Foundation That Makes or Breaks Everything Your Strategic Facilities Plan (SFP) is a […]
Strategic Plans who needs one, what is it based on?
A strategic plan is not a formality—it is a positioning document for how a function earns its budget, justifies its existence, and influences decisions over a 3–5 year horizon. Corporate strategy sets direction. A departmental strategic plan translates that into specific obligations, constraints, and trade-offs. For Facilities, the plan defines: what capacity the business will […]
Strategic Facility Plans – A Critical Piece of your Success!
Business decision making has to have guidelines, Mission, Vision, Values and out of those comes the Strategic Plan, a 2-5 year plan (following your organizations SP) encompassing the entire portfolio of owned and/or leased space that sets facility goals based on the organizations strategic goals. Understanding requires a thorough knowledge of your organizations mission, vision […]
Involvement Equals Growth
Over the course of a career, certain truths become impossible to ignore. One of the most powerful is simple: you get only if you give. This idea is often captured in the philosophy of “Givers Gain,” popularized by Ivan Misner of BNI. At its core, it means that the more you contribute—without expectation—the more value, […]
