Strategic Planning Flashcards
Strategic Planning
Systematic process of envisioning a desired future, and translating this vision into broadly defined goals or objectives and a sequence of steps to achieve them.
Alignment
The communication link for the organization and enables improvement at every level. Translation of the vision into measurable results.
Strategy
Emphasizes choices - How we choose to prioritize, our actions in support of our priorities, the order in which we take them, and who we allocate resources against our priorities.
Priorities, End State & Goals
Identify major strategic focus areas on your watch, similar to a “mini” vision statement and clarify what strategically must be achieved.
Objectives
Communicate what strategic action must be accomplished to realize the intent of the Priority
Metrics
Communicate the intent of the objective statement and reflect how the objective will be achieved.
Tasks
Support objectives at a level where primes and target completion dates can be established
Balanced Score Card
More dressed up version of the Strategy Map
Assess
Identify performance gaps and opportunities
SA & D
A component of AF strategic planning that must be understood, valued, and implemented correctly by SNCO’s.
Cascading Process
Develops a strategic “line of sight” between commander’s strategic priorities and Airmen’s responsibilities & accountabilities.
The primary categories of SWOT analysis are:
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats
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