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Strategic Analysis

What is it?

Strategic Analysis is a process you can use to determine the best way to achieve the result you or your organization desire, by choosing the path of least resistance to bring about change. By doing a Strategic Analysis, your team will create alternatives to bring about the desired result by emphasizing the driving forces, and lessening the resistant ones.

Who uses it?

The team members, the management.

Why use it?

To take advantage of the path of least resistance to achieve your goal.

When to use it?

When you are planning to make a change in your organization, and you need to determine the best path to take.

How to use it:

Conduct a Force Field Analysis with the group.
Generate alternatives: Bearing in mind the forces, use brainstorming to generate possible strategies to fulfill the mission.
Viability Analysis: After defining several possible strategies, review them to see if they are viable (possible) and align with the mission of your institution. Determine whether the necessary resources exist to carry out each strategy. Also, analyze to see if the strategies are politically viable.
Plan of Action: Develop a plan of action by putting in writing each defined strategy and the time line for each strategy. To test your plan of action, compare it to the following criteria:
- each action should be no more than four to five lines
- each line gives clear guidelines of when and how it will be completed
- each strategy helps fulfill the mission of the organization
- each strategy takes advantage of the driving forces and helps overcome the forces of resistance

Example:

Here is an example of a strategic analysis being used to develop strategies.

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