Strategic Business Planning Defined

Strategic business planning is broader than typical strategic or long range panning. It includes the 5 C’s: Costs, Competition, Case and Cultivation with Coaching support to guide.

• Costs/Cost Benefits: Organizations must understand real costs and their financial trends over the last few years as the platform for future planning.
  
  
• Competition: This has two key aspects: 1) to learn from others; 2) to more effectively compete for diminishing resources.
  
  
• Case for Support: A sharpened case for support (or value proposition) highlights why someone should invest in your rather than another.
  
  
• Cultivation: With development opportunities changing and grants drying up, strategic cultivation of one-on-one relationships plus an investment/ impact focused case will be critical.
  
  
• Coaching: Understanding Costs, Competition, Case and Cultivation are essential. But Christiansen Consulting coaching will challenge you to confront key questions/realities, consider trend data, make decisions about priorities/strategies/benchmarks and stay on track during implementation.