Strategic planning is a disciplined effort to produce fundamental decisions and actions that shape

and guide what an organization is, what it does, and why it does it, with a focus on the future.
Strategic planning is also a management tool for several key purposes: to help an organization do
a better job, to focus its energy, to ensure that members are working toward the same goals and
to assess and adjust its direction in response to an ever changing environment.
It provides the master plan an organization uses to achieve its aims. It charts the direction and
goals of the entire organization and all aspects of its operation.