Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning - The top USPS management decision process that focuses on the longer range direction of the Postal Service and establishes the means by which that direction is reached. It includes the definition of missions and objectives - how the Postal Service enterprise sees its purpose and where it wants to go. Strategic planning provides the basic direction and focus of the organization, the big picture. Some of the organization's basic strategic decisions might relate to questions such as: What business are we in? What business should we be in, now and in the future? What should be the geographical scope of operations? What are our research and development goals? How should products be researched? Where are we the weakest? Strongest?

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Source: USPS, 01 November 2009 11:40:52, http://www.usps.com/cpim/ftp/pubs/pub32/pub32q_z.html

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Strategic Planning - A decision-making process in which decisions are made about establishing organizational purposes/mission, determining objectives, selecting strategies and setting policies.

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Source: X4DB, 25 May 2010 08:40:16, http://www.x4db.com/glossary.html

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Strategic Planning - The process an organization uses to envision its future and develop the appropriate strategies, goals, objectives and action plans.

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Source: American Society for Quality, 24 October 2010 08:45:59, http://www.asq.org/glossary/

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Strategic Planning - Strategic planning is a disciplined effort to produce fundamental decisions and actions that SHAPE / Shape and guide what an organization is, what it does, and why it does it, with a focus on the future.

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Source: iSixSigma, 25 February 2011 09:39:58, https:web.archive.org/web/20111109014246/http:www.isixsigma.com/index.php?option=com_glossary