Ict Power
Ict Power
Ict Power
LO3
Develop plans to improve
business performance
LO3 Develop plans to improve business
performance
Business planning is strategic planning because it
is concerned mainly with the designing of
business
What is planning?
Planning is deciding now what we are going to
later including when and how we are going to do
it.
The scope of planning activities may cover long
or short period of time/range.
Long Term/Range Planning/Strategic Plan
Strategic plan is a plan that matches an organization’s
resources with its market opportunity, over the long-run.
Long-range strategy is designed to provide information
about an organization’s vision, mission, direction and
objectives.
The Business Planning Is Concerned With:
1. The direction in which the company should move,
2. The implementation of the plan for the subsequent
period, &
3. The alternatives which are to be sacrificed, if the plan
is accepted and implemented
The benefits of business planning include
1. Helps the company to formulate and achieve
objectives and goals clearly.
2. Aims at the long-range plan rather than short-range
plan.
3. Integrates the company plan with the national
plans and priorities
4. Helps to see both the internal and external
environmental factors.
5. Contributes for the achievement of high rate of
profits.
6. Helps to determine potential growth and profit.
Proactive Planning & Strategic Management
Proactive means anticipating events such
as problems, markets trends, and consumer
demands and planning ahead for them
Strategic management is a stream of
decisions and actions which leads to the
development of an effective strategy or
strategies to help achieve corporate
objectives.
Performance defined
Performance is a measure of the results achieved.
Performance efficiency is the ratio between effort
expended and results achieved.
Performance improvement is the concept of measuring
the output of a particular process or procedure, then
modifying the process or procedure to
increase the output,
increase efficiency, or increase the effectiveness