Assignment: Strategic Planning
Strategic planning, in its generic form, is an essential tool for any homeland security agency to be successful. While homeland security-specific strategic planning will be explored in future segments of this course, it is important to develop a solid understanding of the underlying principles of effective strategic planning processes that public entities faced with a highly dynamic operating environment employ to be successful.
In homeland security, a poorly designed and executed strategic plan will, at a minimum, waste critical resources and time. At worse, a poorly designed and executed homeland security strategic plan may leave the nation, a state, or a community unnecessarily vulnerable to a threat that may pose a catastrophic risk. With so much at stake, homeland security organizations must develop and execute sound strategic plans.
Write 300 to 400 words that respond to the following questions:
i. What are the phases of a typical strategic plan? How do they differ between goals-based, issues-based, and organic approaches to strategic planning? Which approach do you think would work best for a homeland security organization?
ii. The strategic planning process can bring on organizational change that can sometimes be met with resistance.
iii. What strategies do you think can be employed to minimize resistance to change? Explain.
iv. No matter what strategic planning process an organization chooses to follow, trade-offs and negotiations are important aspects. What are one or more successful strategies that you feel can be utilized to move the planning process forward? Explain.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
i) The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
ii) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
iii) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.