Strategic Planning: Basic Resources

One of the major theoretical sources for the design of the RSVP process is large body of knowledge known as Strategic Management or Strategic Planning, among other related names.  It is a fairly well established set of conceptual tools used to provide a guide in how to proceed as an organization.  Strategic Planning provides a framework for an organization to answer three basic questions:  Where are we now?  Where do we want to go? How do we get there?

There will be some more detailed discussions of this subject later, but for now I just want to make some general information available for anyone who is interested.  I found one site in particular, the Free Management Library, that provides an excellent set of basic articles on Strategic Planning.

The Library appears to be a minimally-managed wiki-type set-up, allowing users to add articles, so there is not any sort of peer or jury review of the information, but at the very least, it echos most of what I have learned about the subject and provides a lot of recommendations for other resources.  And it's certainly a better resource than the Wikipedia entry for Strategic Planning.

Posted by Dave Johnson in Research