Strategic Planning and Succession Planning: Different Goals and Teams

As I discussed in my last post, strategic planning and succession planning both are long term endeavors with significant overlap and many similarities. However, the defining and distinguishing characteristics of succession planning are reflected in the differences in these two very important leadership and management initiatives. The differences are reflected in the goals, scope, focus and the term of these two endeavors. The purpose of strategic planning is the confirmation of goals and priorities and the optimization of business performance through the effective alignment of business resources with performance objectives. Business resources can be broken down into three general categories: time, people and money. Strategic planning endeavors to optimize synergy, productivity and efficiency by confirming priorities and establishing compatible plans for the achievement of realistic performance benchmarks. Click here to read the end of this blog.