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Well, they are:
1- Unclear directions of the share holders of the organization. The strategic planner has to guarantee that he well-understand the general strategic directions of the owners of the organization.
2- Incorrect data from the market surveyors or wrong market indicators coming from the official or freelancer firms of market data collections.
3- Internal resistance from the internal parties inside the organization.
4- Wrong estimation of the internal capabilities of the organization.
5- Sudden market changes.
Uncertainty calculation and risk assessment.
Being surrounded by a team which never thinks out of the box and do not have a wider perspective.
Salaam,
1. Ensured that clear Mission and vision are defined in in a true way.
2. Deep understanding of External situation; which means that a strategic planner is well understood why,what & how gather required data from external environment, analyze and formulate it. changes in external environment sometimes occure all of a sadden and have intensive effects in company's business. so ability to use some techniques like multiple scenarios helps to be flexible against major external impacts.
3. Ability of shifting from planning to implementation step. which needs concrete strategy implementation plans in form of projects.
- while assessing the variables and attributes of a strategical option, sometimes our intution gained through practice cannot be implemented. It could be due to 'vision myopia' of business holders or poor adapatability nature of middle level, functional level employees to the plan, the result: plan could be a success but you have to change it.