Strategic planning should follow a common sense approach. This paper explains a method of planning that the author has seen work successfully and what is required to help to succeed. One may know a different way of building his or her plan, but this technique does work. The author explains that this method was used for the yearly strategic planning process within his organization. However, one can easily modify it to perform strategic planning for such areas as: Business Intelligence initiatives, Data Warehouse planning, and just about anything else he or she would want to use it for.
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