Auma Actuators, Inc.
Auma Actuators, Inc.
Canonsburg, PA

Strategic Planning

Strategic planning aligns your whole organization – people, processes, and resources – toward a clear, compelling, and desired future state. It’s the process through which an organization determines where it wants to be, and how it will get there.

Increased sales and profits are rarely won through guessing games. Manufacturing companies that are willing to ask tough questions and hear tough answers are the companies that anticipate change best and respond to it most constructively. The right strategic plan can enable your company to win in the marketplace by competing efficiently and confidently.

Catalyst Connection has developed a proven process that will help your company create a clear, flexible, effective plan. To ensure executive buy-in at each stage in the process, our team approach requires participation by top management in all planning sessions.

You’ll find that you and your team can develop a strategic plan in a relatively short time by:

  • Creating mission, vision, and value statements that clearly express your desired future state.
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  • Identifying the goals that will enable your company to achieve its vision.
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  • Performing an internal and external “scan” that will identify your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
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  • Developing tactics that will use your company’s strengths to capitalize on opportunities and minimize threats.
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  • Creating an implementation plan that sets timelines, assigns responsibilities, and clearly identifies the tactics you will apply in carrying out your strategy.
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Most businesses find that implementation is the most difficult stage in the process. At your request, we can custom-design an expert implementation coaching and support program that matches the scope and scale of your needs.

Benefits

  • Focus on what’s most important, allocating resources such as time, talent, and money to the activities that provide the most benefit.
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  • Realize the impact of the changing business environment, and understand the ways in which your company must respond.
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  • Recognize the need for better decision-making information.
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  • Provide a framework for decision-making throughout your organization.
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  • Reveal and clarify future opportunities and threats.
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  • Set specific objectives.
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  • Provide a basis for measuring performance.
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  • Build a planning team that’s dedicated to your organization’s future.
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  • Develop a context for budgets and short-range operating plans.
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  • Reassure employees by helping them understand the changing environment and your company's ability to adapt.
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