Strategic Plan

A strategic plan is about thinking, organizing, and predicting, based on thoroughly grounded research and documentation. From your previous coursework of developing an outline, conducting a SWOT/PEST analysis, and developing a budget, you have the basis for compiling a full and complete strategic plan for your chosen organization.

Your strategic plan must consider the appropriate elements, depending on whether your plan is for a program or agency in a government, for-profit organization, nonprofit organization, or hybrid organization. Accordingly, your strategic plan will recognize the priorities, goals, and objectives of the appropriate organization. Remember that a normal timeframe for a strategic plan is five years, and for a short-range plan up to five years.

Instructions

For this assignment, create a strategic plan for your chosen organization. Your plan will have nearly all of the following components (headings), depending on whether you are preparing a public sector, private sector, civil society sector, or mixed (hybrid) plan. Include the following:

• Format Structure:
  • Executive Summary.
  • Board Authorization of Strategic Plan (in the case of a corporation).
  • Organizational Description.
  • Mission, Vision, and Values.
  • Goals and Strategies.
• Appendices:
  • A. Action Planning (including objectives, responsibilities, and timelines).
  • B. Description of Strategic Planning Process Used.
  • C. Strategic Analysis Data (external analysis, internal analysis, and list of issues).
  • D. Goals for Board Committees and Chief Executive Officer.
  • E. Staffing Plans.
  • F. Operating Budgets.
  • G. Financial Reports (budgets, statements, etcetera).
  • H. Monitoring and Evaluation of Plan (criteria, responsibilities, and findings).
  • I. Communicating the Plan.

Your narrative for this assignment should include the following:

• Develop a realistic budget for your chosen organization.
  • Explain what makes it realistic.
• Apply strategic planning theory to your organizational strategic plan.
  • Explain which theories are most relevant to your plan, and why they are important.
• Assess the mission and vision relationship to expected outcomes for your chosen organization.

Submission Requirements

• Written Communication: Communicate your strategic plan by writing in a professional manner that exemplifies doctoral-level critical thinking and analysis in your paper. Do not just present a summary of the readings.
  • Objectively evaluate and report on the findings of your research materials and the readings from the course.
  • Make points that are logical, substantive, and relevant, based on the presented evidence.
  • Avoid written errors that detract from the overall message.
  • Clearly identify in your paper where you are addressing each grading criterion or part of the assignment.
• Length: The executive summary should be 750 words, with a minimum of 150 words per section of the plan, plus a reference section with citations.
• Number of Resources: Minimum of fifteen resources listed at the end of the outline in a reference section.
• APA Guidelines: Format resources and citations according to current APA style and formatting guidelines. Use APA-formatted headings and subheadings, as appropriate.
• Font: Times New Roman, 12 point.
  

  Strategic Plan Scoring Guide

  Due Date: End of Unit 10
  Percentage of Course Grade: 25%.

  CRITERIA
  Develop a strategic plan for a government, for-profit, nonprofit, or hybrid organization. 15%
  Develop a realistic budget for a chosen organization. 25%
  Apply strategic planning theory to an organizational strategic plan. 15%
  Assess the relationship of mission and vision to expected outcomes for a chosen organization. 25%
  Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and respectful of the diversity, dignity, and integrity of others, consistent with expectations for members of the human services profession. 20%

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  Week 10 Final Project

  Posted on: Monday, June 14, 2021 9:35:16 AM CDTHi all!
  You’ve made it! Today begins the last week of class. You will be submitting the final course project that you have been building all quarter. The final course project is your complete strategic plan. Your strategic plan should contain most, if not all, of the following headings:

  • Main Body:
    • Executive Summary.
    • Board Authorization of Strategic Plan (in the case of a corporation).
    • Organizational Description.
    • Mission, Vision, and Values.
    • Goals and Strategies.
  • Appendices:
    • A. Action Planning (including objectives, responsibilities, and timelines).
    • B. Description of Strategic Planning Process Used.
    • C. Strategic Analysis Data (external analysis, internal analysis, and list of issues) (from u05a1).
    • D. Goals for Board Committees and Chief Executive Officer.
    • E. Staffing Plans.
    • F. Operating Budgets (from u08a1)
    • G. Financial Reports (budgets, statements, etcetera).
    • H. Monitoring and Evaluation of Plan (criteria, responsibilities, and findings).
    • I. Communicating the Plan.

  Your narrative for this assignment should include the following:

  • Develop a realistic budget for your chosen organization (from u08a1).
    • Explain what makes it realistic.
  • Apply strategic planning theory to your organizational strategic plan (from units 7 and 8 discussions).
    • Explain which theories are most relevant to your plan, and why they are important.
  • Assess the mission and vision relationship to expected outcomes for your chosen organization.

  PLEASE NOTE:Your final strategic plan should be written in complete sentences, in paragraph form, NOT as an outline. Additionally, feedback given in previous assignments is expected to be applied.The executive summary should be a minimum of 750 words, and summarize the plan as a whole. All other sections (except Board Authorization, which is just a signature page) should be 150 words minimum each.This assignment requires the application of a minimum of 15 resources. While an actual strategic plan might not include citations and references, this is an academic assignment and requires APA format citations and references denoting information applied within the strategic plan. Be sure that all 15 resources are cited within the body of the plan.Be sure to proofread for spelling and grammar errors, use an appropriate APA format title page, and follow APA rules for citations and references. There are several examples of completed strategic plans in the scatterdesk media piece that has been present throughout the course. The sample titled “Sample Strategic Plan” is the closest, in terms of required headings, to the requirements of this assignment, but as to formatting you can follow any of the examples you like. You are welcome to be as creative as you like, provided all of the required content is included, and APA rules are followed.Be sure that you refer to the scoring guide as you complete your assignment to ensure you are covering all required points.U10A1 is due no later than SATURDAY June 19, 11:59pm Central time.Please let me know if you have any questions.Dr. A

I need two or three slides that is a marketing plan for the idea of a Pogo Stick. I will attach what we have accomplished as a group for this idea. I will also attach the powerpoint that have been started. I need help with my part and that is the marketing plan for this idea. Can you come up with at least two slides of a good marketing plan with a few notes in the note pane on powerpoint?

This is what the assignment ask for the group to do. We have broken each part into sections and I have to do slides on a marketing plan

Phase 3, your team will prepare a presentation to recommend your implementation plan to the appropriate audience for your innovation (e.g., venture capitalists, your CEO, your board of directors, etc.). Your goal is to persuade the audience to back your plan. Prepare 10-15 professionally developed presentation slides that accomplish the following:

1. Describe the innovation and its value to both customers and the organization/entity to which you are pitching your idea.
2. Review the implementation plan in significant enough depth to demonstrate your thorough understanding of the implementation process.
3. Include a cost/benefit analysis appropriate for your particular audience.

Ensure your slides are visually appealing and conform to conventions of effective slide design. Include a reference slide with a minimum of three secondary resources utilized in the development of your presentation.

Three point estimation: It is created by using previous experience. It is also called program evaluation and review technique. It increased accuracy over one point system. It is also called three set assumption. The first set is optimistic estimate, second set is pessimistic estimate and third set is in between two.

b) Triangular Estimation: It is like average of the three estimates. It includes time and that would be considering the complexities such as three estimate times would be equal.

c) Analog Estimation: It is one of the most common techniques of estimating. This process takes past experience and implements in the current project.

II. It is highly impossible for the project manager to decide which estimate is better among three. For different level of projects we should use different techniques. It is decided based on the size, resources, cost and risk of the project. By seeing the pros and cons of the project we will decide the type of estimate we need to consider. If the project manager commits small mistake in making decision, this may impact his carrier in the organization. The project manager should select a good estimating technique among three estimations.

III. If I am the project manager, I will decide any one model based on the need and size, available resources, and cost. Based on my prior experience I will determine the project. Client should trust project managers in the way handling business and taking decisions.

For this part of your Scholar-Practitioner Project you will develop a financial accounting analysis of the public health initiative you selected in week 2. In your analysis be sure to incorporate return on investment, time-value of money, and inflation factors.

The financial accounting analysis should include:

• A 5-year proposed budget including major line items. Please use PHS398 form page 4 and PHS 398 form page 5.
• See blank forms for proposed budget on NIH grants page located here:

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/forms/othersupport.h…

• An analysis of budget line items, costs, sources of revenue, and deficits
• An analysis of the fiscal soundness and long-term viability of the public health initiative

Be sure to review the example budget in the Resources area of Week 9

Assignment length: 5–6 pages

By Day 7

Submit your Assignment.

Support your Project Assignment with specific references to all resources used in its preparation. You are to provide a reference list for all resources, including those in the Learning Resources for this course.

1) provide excel work and work on word

An electrical contractor’s records during the last five weeks indicate the number of job requests:

Week 1-20 requests

week 2-22 requests

week 3-18 requests

week 4-21 requests

week 5-22 requests

Predict the number of requests for week 6 using each of these methods:

a. Naive

b. A four-period moving average

c. Exponential smoothing with α = .30; use 20 for week 2 forecast

2)List the specific weaknesses of each of the following approaches to developing a forecast.

a. Consumer surveys

b. Salesforce composite
c. Committee of managers or executives

3) Which type of forecasting approach, qualitative or quantitative, is better?

4) Choose the type of forecasting technique (survey, Delphi, averaging, seasonal, naive, trend, or associative) that would be most appropriate for predicting the:

a. Demand for Mother’s Day greeting cards.

b. Popularity of a new television series.

c. Demand for vacations on the moon.

d. Impact a price increase of 10 percent would have on sales of orange marmalade.

e. Demand for toothpaste in a particular supermarket.