EIDOS strategic planning template

We know that it is not possible to provide the one strategy-planning template.

This is why we offer a customizable framework to be adapted to the individual situation of an organization and its environment. However, there’s a generic part of the process we have built into the template: As planning at the corporate level requires information and data from the substructures, a bottom up analytical phase is followed by a central strategic planning exercise. Once the plan is set at central level, the communication and adaptation at sub-structure level takes place.

The Parmenides Eidos strategic planning process template provides the needed tools and explanations for each of the phases.

Strategic Continuity

The often found disconnect between a centralized strategic planning team and the sub-structures of an organization often thwarts the purpose of a (yearly) strategic planning process in an organization:

• Guidance for the entire organization based on a strategy developed under consideration of internal and external drivers and the evaluation of strategic options based on efficiency and strategy robustness.
• The Parmenides Eidos strategic planning process dissolves the disconnect and supports proper communication and translation of corporate level strategic thrusts and directions into implementable plans at operative levels.
• The “yearly exercise” is turned into a truly guiding, structured and manageable process.

Corporate backbone

Over time, the different elements of the planning processes over the years contribute to building up a corporate knowledge backbone.

Not only progress over time can be documented and evaluated, but analysis from the past can be reassessed to foster learning processes, priorities can be reviewed and changes tracked over the years. In such manner a true corporate memory builds up.

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EIDOS Corporate Backbone