How to Move from Strategic Planning to Results
in 90 days
Go beyond building a strategic plan and create a
powerful strategic management system
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1) Improved Visibility and Access to project plans, status updates, action items and related documents.
2) Improved Organization and Coordination of work effort, with reduced slip-ups, reduced mistakes, and reduced errors due to miss-communication.
3) Improved Accountability and Follow-Through on assigned goals, projects and tasks.
4) Improved Focus & Prioritization, helping everyone be more strategic, less reactive in overall performance, and reduce time spent on non- priority activities.
5) Improved Planning & Performance, with easy to read score cards and dashboards measuring what's importing.
If you've been looking for an easier way to
build a strategic plan,
If you've ever felt the frustration of
building a strategic plan, only to see it
ignored or lost in the day-to-day rush,
If you want to work more strategically, but
it seems to be an elusive goal,
Then take a look at ManagePro,
it's the right technology to help you connect
strategic planning and execution. And be sure
to follow our blog, with it's step by step
discussion of strategic planning and strategic
management.
The majority of people in management reporting
wanting, but not having, a strategic planning
software that ties the strategic plan to ongoing
projects, updates, reviewable outcomes and scorecard
metrics. In short they plan, but don't have
the technology in place to support tracking and
following-up the plan to ensure successful execution
and adaptive changes.
ManagePro provides, in one strategic
business plan
software, all the tools you need to plan and execute
your strategy. Avoid the lack of
follow-through and visibility that occurs when you
attempt to execute a strategic plan cobbled together
in spreadsheets, powerpoints and assorted documents.
From a business performance perspective, a strategic
business plan software needs to extend
drill-down and coordination capabilities all the way to the individual worker's daily
prioritization of tasks and time. Without that ability,
strategy becomes divorced from
day-to-day realities and something just the "top brass" worry about
and management will struggle to make
strategy work.
Go beyond building a strategic plan, create a well functioning strategic management system, one
that drives the organization's performance, focus and outcomes, is a high impact business
objective and competitive differentiator.
The key to
being successful at the goals of "build
strategic plan" or "make strategy work", is the ability to
use technology to make follow-up seamless and
visibility cascade down from top level planning, dashboard and
score-card features, into day-to-day operations and tasks.
ManagePro offers a number of critical features to
make it easier to build a strategic plan process,
and support it
with visibility, tracking and execution.
Features that include into inputs from project
status updates, (Balanced) scorecards, metrics, and business and personal performance indicators. Three of those features
(the Strategic Scorecard Map, the Strategic Plan Highlight filter button and Weighted
Average Scores for strategy goal scorecards) are covered in depth in our online article
"Strategy Execution Tools".
ManagePro provides the
technology to ensure your
investment in strategic planning pays off in business
growth deliverables, incorporating the best of
visibility and alignment around strategic goals and
initiatives, as well as corporate and individual
performance metrics using four different views to suit
your needs.
People and Strategy
As strong as the ManagePro technology is, PST brings an equally capable consulting
solution for crossing the gap between strategic planning and
strategic execution - for journeying to the performance
improvement and strategic operation destination. It is a journey along which we have guided many leaders and organizations.
We provide the technology tools, the coaching, and the experience of "having been there, done that" with
strategic organizations all over the world wishing to build an organization that functions more strategically.
We essentially provide a guide service to those leaders and organizations intending to scale new performance
levels. We know:
What leadership skills are essential to practice, and which choices are equivalent to walking off a cliff.
We know where the resistance is going to come from, what form it will take and how it needs to be addressed.
We know how to set up a strategic management tool such that it helps the organization achieve its goal
of strategic operations, not get in the way of it.
Finally we know where the battle is fought and won in the minds, in the habits and ultimately in the
results of people in your organization.
Strategic organization systems are built upon PST's technology, using either desktop (fat client),
smart client or browser based versions of ManagePro or some combination of the three versions. If you are
wondering what PST's management solution might look like within the organization in which you work,
imagine being able to record an immediate "Yes" to the following questions and then download our demo or give us
a toll free call at (877) 487-3001.
Strategic
Plan Software Checklist
Yes
Partially
No
1. Are the top strategic initiatives embodying the plan, values and assumption for growing the company clearly in one place and easily tracked with updated metrics?
2. Are the key action steps (plan) or milestones for each initiative easily identifiable and tracked?
3. Do all top level initiatives and projects receive weekly progress updates for immediate drill down and expedition of review in staff meetings?
4. Can each person see the context for the projects and tasks they are working on, such that the connection to top level objectives and the strategic plan is visible?
5. Is there a single source for viewing or working with key projects and their relative progress across departments and across individuals?
6. Is there a tool in place to track target goals vs. results in a color coded format across goals, objectives and projects? E.g. An easy-to-use "Management by exception" tool? Can that tool be viewed in an outline, or Gantt chart, or work-flow model to suit each user?
7. Is there a tool for connecting all documents, e-mail and action items or to-dos to their related project or task for immediate review of past history and correspondence?
8. Finally, is there a tool in place that with a single mouse click converts goal and project results into an annual review format for the person's assigned to that task?
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Strategic Plan software for 30 days 
The key to
being successful at the goals of "build
strategic plan" or "make strategy work", is the ability to
use technology to make follow-up seamless and
visibility cascade down from top level planning, dashboard and
score-card features, into day-to-day operations and tasks.
