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The organization's strategy determines the organization's general direction. It has a vast scope,
including the entire company. The scope of an operations strategy is tighter, focusing on the
organization's operations.
The company's long-term intentions to attain its intended goals and overall success are discussed
in organizational strategy. Operations strategy, on the other hand, is concerned with the effective
and efficient use of a company's resources in order to produce things and deliver services. More
specifically, in operations strategy, the firm's manager must devise plans to increase the firm's
throughput (assuming it is a manufacturing firm) while lowering operational costs. Many plans
can be formed to meet these two criteria, such as identifying the system's bottlenecks and then
addressing those bottlenecks to try to enhance its capacity for faster output. Organizational
strategy, on the other hand, is concerned with the top management's overarching plans. Because
the ultimate purpose of a business is to produce money, these plans will almost always include
money as a primary variable input in their decision-making.
Identifying who needs to be involved in the planning process is the first step in developing a
strategic plan for the organization.
Who should be involved in the strategic planning process is a decision that the Management
Committee must make? In general, it should include the following:
• individuals who will be responsible for putting the plan into action (for example,
management, employees, and volunteers);
• those who will be impacted (for example, members, users, and so on);
• people who will be in charge of overseeing its implementation (for example, the
Management Committee); and
• individuals who may be able to assist in its growth (e.g., community activists, funding
bodies, etc).