Strategic Management

Strategic Programming

 

  
   

Traditional Strategic Management model
for simple and stable business environment

 

  

 
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As a strategic leader, you must ensure that your realized strategies are as similar as possible to your deliberate strategies, which, in turn, should be as close as possible to intended strategies.

Strategic programming is planning how your deliberate strategy can best match the realized to the intended strategy.

  

 
 

"Strategic programming makes sense when the world is expected to hold still or change predictably while the intended strategies unfold, so that formulation can logically precede implementation." ~ Henry Mintzberg

  

Limitations to Strategic Programming

  

 

 
 

Strengths of Strategic Programming

Strategic programming facilitates communication about strategic issues and achieving integration across organizational levels and functional specialties.

Properly done, rational strategic planning provides your entire organization with a road map that greatly facilitates personal individual initiative.

  

Strategy Management

Strategic Planning

Traditional Management Model

Strategic Learning

  

 
 

Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS)

In the Strategic Programming model, plan development and implementation takes place in a straightforward linear fashion.

Strategy Formulation: based on a preestablished mission and its corresponding goals and objectives, you identify alternative strategies and evaluate them before selecting the preferred option.

Strategy Implementation: implement the strategy through a tactics described by a series of increasingly detailed and shorter range plans, programs, and budgets. Each level of plans should have a corresponding level of budgets by which adherence to the plans is enforced.

Conditions That Encourage a Strategic Programming Approach to Implementation

Necessity Conditions: Simplicity; Stability

Motivating Conditions: Industry Maturity; Capital Intensity; Tightly Coupled Operations; External Control

→ Impediments To Strategy Implementation

  

 
 

Strategy Innovation vs. Strategy Programming

In strategic programming, you can realistically separate planning and doing, strategy formulation and implementation.

  

Strategy Implementation Difficulties

Strategy Innovation

  

 
 

In strategy innovation, you assume that you cannot realistically tell in advance how the future will unfold or what will work, and therefore intertwine formulations and implementation, continually adjusting your strategy as you gain new insights through an experimental trial-and-error process of learning by doing.

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