Is Strategic Planning Making a Comeback?
During 1999, we saw headlines talking about how strategic planning is making a comeback . We perceive that to be correct, but not in the sense of the grandiose Michael Porter blockbuster moves, but more associated with the need to align organizations with meaningful and disciplined goals. It seems that so much energy has been dedicated to bringing order to organization infrastructure, that enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation and information systems (IS) initiatives grabbed control of the corporate agenda. Yet, the outcome of the effort has been of limited benefit to the overall business game . As organizations get back to worrying about how they are going to make a buck, there is a need to balance between doing what is needed to operate the business and manage in a world which is highly influenced by information systems and telecommunications. Software and telecommunications have revolutionized our hobbies, our day to day lives, our work and our economy. The speed at whic
