Strategic Planning for Success offers you a pragmatic guide to the design and development of practical and pragmatic strategic thinking and organizational alignment that will yield high-impact results and measurably add value to you, your organization, your clients, and society. Unlike other books on the topic, this volume goes beyond simply detailing the tools and techniques of design and development by clearly showing how to align what you do with what will be most valuable to all stakeholders. Using this unique approach will yield extraordinary results adding measurable value that flows from individual performance accomplishment to organizational and societal contributions.

Review

"If your looking for a straightforward approach to strategic planning, then I recommend Strategic Planning for Success." ( IACET , May 9, 2003)

"Most line managers would benefit form studying this book." ( Business Process Trends , June 2003)

Review

"Dr. Roger Kaufman and his team provide a handbook that helps all organizations answer, 'What value do we add?' 'How do we measure performance and results or critical success factors?' Strategic planning questions are models of essential tools for leaders of change."
― Frances Hesselbein, chairman, board of governors, The Drucker Foundation

" Strategic Planning for Success is a thoroughly researched and robust collection of concepts and principles that can add value to management planning and task execution at organizations large and small. I highly recommend it to managers who don't want to be left behind in today's era of dynamic change."
― Wess Roberts, author, Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun

"Kaufman, Oakley-Brown, Watkins, and Leigh give every organizational leader a new map for driving across the land we call 'the future.' Clear, organized, and focused― a must have!"
― Jim Hill, director, Sun Microsystems

"This book offers an effective and comprehensive guide for those who design, evaluate, and implement strategic plans. Its strength is its clarity, its holistic approach, and its focus on results. Exceptionally useful for anyone engaged in positioning complex enterprises for future success."
― John V. Lombardi, chancellor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

"Strategic Planning for Success offers clear, organized and direct answers to vital and focused planning questions."
― Richard E. Clark, professor, Educational Psychology and Technology, University of Southern California

From the Inside Flap

We depend on organizations—airlines, drug manufacturers, supermarkets, energy suppliers—to put our safety, survival, and quality of life as their top purpose. Without this assurance to consumers, these companies would soon go out of business. And by putting the concerns of society first these organizations thrive in the private and public sectors. The question is “How can all organizations be transformed so the needs of the client and ultimately society are at the top of their priority lists?”

Strategic Planning for Success offers you a pragmatic guide to the design and development of practical and pragmatic strategic thinking and organizational alignment that will yield high–impact results and measurably add value to you, your organization, your clients, and society. Unlike other books on the topic, this volume goes beyond simply detailing the tools and techniques of design and development by clearly showing how to align what you do with what will be most valuable to all stakeholders. Using this unique approach will yield extraordinary results adding measurable value that flows from individual performance accomplishment to organizational and societal contributions.

Written by strategic planning experts Roger Kaufman, Hugh Oakley-Browne, Ryan Watkins, and Doug Leigh, Strategic Planning for Success is a practical, applications–oriented guide that shows how to think strategically and goes on to define what to deliver, to whom, and why. The book focuses on what an organization must do and deliver to have continuing success and is based on practical applications used world–wide in both the private and public sectors. Copublished with the International Society for Performance Improvement, this hands–on guide is filled with concepts, tools, and practical exercises designed for operational application including:

• Guided practice, replete with job aids, checklists, and activities
• A website that features PowerPoint presentations for each chapter, plus additional activities, case studies, and customizable job aids, checklists, and exercises
• Guidelines for system (not just systems) thinking, planning, design, development, test, revision, and application—not just pieces of organizational or human performance improvement
• Useful, pragmatic, and proven tools and concepts, including needs assessment, needs analysis, and costs–consequences analysis

Strategic Planning for Success will show you how to define, deliver, develop, and promote genuine performance improvement within your organization.

From the Back Cover

We depend on organizations―airlines, drug manufacturers, supermarkets, energy suppliers―to put our safety, survival, and quality of life as their top purpose. Without this assurance to consumers, these companies would soon go out of business. And by putting the concerns of society first these organizations thrive in the private and public sectors. The question is “How can all organizations be transformed so the needs of the client and ultimately society are at the top of their priority lists?”

Strategic Planning for Success offers you a pragmatic guide to the design and development of practical and pragmatic strategic thinking and organizational alignment that will yield high–impact results and measurably add value to you, your organization, your clients, and society. Unlike other books on the topic, this volume goes beyond simply detailing the tools and techniques of design and development by clearly showing how to align what you do with what will be most valuable to all stakeholders. Using this unique approach will yield extraordinary results adding measurable value that flows from individual performance accomplishment to organizational and societal contributions.

Written by strategic planning experts Roger Kaufman, Hugh Oakley-Browne, Ryan Watkins, and Doug Leigh, Strategic Planning for Success is a practical, applications–oriented guide that shows how to think strategically and goes on to define what to deliver, to whom, and why. The book focuses on what an organization must do and deliver to have continuing success and is based on practical applications used world–wide in both the private and public sectors. Copublished with the International Society for Performance Improvement, this hands–on guide is filled with concepts, tools, and practical exercises designed for operational application including:

• Guided practice, replete with job aids, checklists, and activities
• A website that features PowerPoint presentations for each chapter, plus additional activities, case studies, and customizable job aids, checklists, and exercises
• Guidelines for system (not just systems) thinking, planning, design, development, test, revision, and application―not just pieces of organizational or human performance improvement
• Useful, pragmatic, and proven tools and concepts, including needs assessment, needs analysis, and costs–consequences analysis

Strategic Planning for Success will show you how to define, deliver, develop, and promote genuine performance improvement within your organization.

About the Author

The Authors

Roger Kaufman is director of Roger Kaufman & Associates and professor and director of the Office for Needs Assessment and Planning at Florida State University.

Hugh Oakley–Browne is managing director and founder of Hugh Oakley-Browne and Associates in New Zealand, and a performance improvement executive with BHP in Australia.

Ryan Watkins is an assistant professor at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Doug Leigh is an assistant professor at Pepperdine University, Los Angeles, California.