The changes with the modernization of the world, politics, economics, company management, public administration, it is a fact that it has as much effect on the fields and individuals as it has on the structures of institutions and states. As a result, significant changes and development processes affecting societies have been witnessed and over time it has been understood that it is possible to manage these processes in a targeted manner through strategic planning. What makes strategic management and its strategic planning so important is the success or failure of these processes.
For this reason, the study will refer to the strategic method, the concept of strategic planning, the relationship of strategic planning with the strategic method, the purpose, importance and processes of strategic planning. Then, the country’s strategic planning practices in military, political and educational areas will be discussed, and the final section will be talking about the contribution of strategic planning to the country’s development.
Strategic Management
The main goal of strategic management is to ensure the long-term stability of the institution, maintain the continuity of strategic management institutions, and seek answers to the question of how they will succeed in competition. Time, while strategic management seems to be synonymous with strategic planning and even interchangeable, they differ in terms of implementation and scope. Strategic planning is generally used in practice, while strategic management is mainly used in academic literature. Other than that, strategic management is used from time to time to explain strategies, implementation and assessment processes, while strategic planning only describes strategy creation
Strategic Planning Relationship with Strategic Management
Since 1980, Strategic Management in the management literature has started with the determination of some strategies for the actions to be taken and then includes steps such as research, review, assessment and selection to plan; and it has been defined and used as a whole of the functions that are involved in the activities of higher-level officials of the institution, which take all kinds of structural and incentive measures and process them so that these strategies are put into action, before the practices, include a re-control of their compliance with the objectives. In this case, a tight relationship between strategic management and strategic planning is very clear and in a way, strategic management includes strategic planning. This is because the development of strategic management and the development of strategic planning are evolving in parallel. In other words, strategic management can be considered a managerial activity that covers strategic planning.
Strategic Planning and Objectives
Because of the changes in balance in the increasingly modernized world, the organization structures of institutions have also grown. It has driven institutions to plan, as it is expected to reach the targets within these growing and developing structures with limited resources in the most effective and short time. In this sense, the purpose of planning is to perform the functions of the institutions in the most practical way, with the minimum resources and time, to the goals set out ahead of them.
The concept of Strategic Planning was first used in a private sector in the mid-1960 and thus passed literature. The strategic planning adopted later by public institutions is an application that enables successful management of management processes with the shortest definition. It brings clarity to what we want to do, how and under what conditions, and the carpet is compared to current actions. What is the capacity of a management, “who are we?” What are our skills, what are we trying to figure out? What are the differences between what we are considering doing now, what critical problems are we facing, what resources can be deployed, have we set our priorities? Answers to strategic planning questions
In more detail, to provide a management based on strategic planning, objectives and objectives, to ensure that processes are actually important to achieve desired performance results, to ensure effective use of distributed resources, to increase public satisfaction, to provide internal financial discipline (accountability), interagency transparency, clarity, authority of institutions, It allows him to be strengthened in terms of responsibility and image.
Processes of Strategic Planning
Strategic Planning processes work as follows: Mission determination and Vision concept, Objective determination, Internal Analysis, External Environmental Analysis, Company Strategy Detection, Evaluation and Selection of Company Strategies, Planning of Functional Strategies, Implementation of Strategic Plan, Control of Plan and Practices. According to this, with Strategic Planning, when institutions plan their future based on analytics, they can predict how much they will take place, and so their practices become much more robust, healthier and more profitable.
Yaşam Ayavefe
