Strategic Planning - Business Analysis Techniques

Business Analysis Techniques

Various business analysis techniques can be used in strategic planning, including SWOT analysis, PEST analysis, STEER analysis, and EPISTEL (see above).

SYSTEM:

Successful and sustainable transformation efforts require leaders who know how to manage change. At the simplest level, managing change means:

  • Knowing what you want to accomplish and creating a compelling vision that motivates others
  • Understand stakeholders and communicating with them early, consistently and often
  • Managing the varying levels of support and resistance that will inevitably emerge in response to any change
  • Change Leadership is a skillset that is required throughout any deployment, from planning and executing to sustaining improvements.
  • Change Leadership is essential for both high level executives and program leaders, who are responsible for setting the vision, communicate the vision and make the changes happen.

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