• Forecast challenges
and opportunities facing the organization
within a specific time frame
• Determine
a strategic plan that will best enable the
organization to respond to future challenges
and opportunities
• Establish
the priority objectives to facilitate implementation
of the strategic plan
• Define
specific plans of action for making progress
toward strategic plan implementation
• Develop
a strategy for encouraging organizational
support for the long-range plan at every level
of the organization
• Construct
and implement procedures for monitoring the
plan while in progress