Strategic Management

Paper Summary:

The paper discusses the strategic planning process from an overall business perspective with an emphasis on the police department. The paper aims to provide an understanding of the dangers of nonexistent or inadequate planning, especially when it comes to the matter of saving lives and protecting property. The paper relates the importance of looking at the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats facing the business. The paper then discusses how strategic plans must address the values of commitment, accountability, competence, courage, respect, honesty and compassion.

From the Paper:

"It is important to remember, however, that there are many different issues involved when it comes to strategic planning, and many of them can be overlooked in the desire to create a plan and complete it. In theory, a plan that is well thought out and defined is complete when it is approved and printed, but in reality it is always changing (Tegarden, Sarason, & Banbury, 2003). There are issues that are sometimes not addressed in the original plan, and there are also times when something that was thought to work well does not actually work as well in real life as it does on paper. During times such as these, the strategic plan must then be amended, added to, or changed in order for it to do the job it was designed for and hold to the values and goals that the organization has created. This is especially true of the police department, since it is such a vital business and there is much more at stake than profit and loss of cash."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Dalton, Linda C. (2001). Thinking about tomorrow: Bringing the future to the forefront of planning. Journal of the American Planning Association, 397.
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• Tegarden, Linda F, Sarason, Yolanda, and Banbury, Catherine. (2003). Linking strategy processes to performance outcomes in dynamic environments: The need to target multiple bull's eyes. Journal of Managerial Issues, 133.

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