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Getting started with strategy and business planning

What you need to begin with strategy and business planning

What is strategy?

Use this page to learn about what strategy is and how it can help your organisation

Involving people in developing your strategy

Use this page to learn who to involve in developing your strategy and how best to engage them

Creating the right strategy process for your organisation

Learn about how to create the right strategy process for your organisation.

Other help and guidance you might be interested in

  • Other players

    A guide for your organisation to look at the priorities and impact of other organisations in your area of work

    • Business planning and strategy

  • Forcefield analysis

    Use this tool to help you identify the forces working for and against a particular option

    • Business planning and strategy

  • Even over statements

    Use this tool to help your organisation explore tradeoffs

    • Business planning and strategy

  • SWOT

    A guide to help your organisation with your SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis

    • Business planning and strategy

  • Gathering knowledge to assess your situation

    Use this section to select the right tools to help you understand your landscape and conditions.

    • Business planning and strategy

  • Theory of Change

    Learn about Theory of Change as a process and a tool

    • Business planning and strategy

  • Deciding what you will do and how

    Find out about how to select the right tools to help you make good decisions

    • Business planning and strategy

  • Understanding your landscape and conditions

    Learn about understanding your organisation's landscape and conditions and the tools that can help with this

    • Business planning and strategy

  • Making good decisions

    Learn about how to make good decisions and the tools that can help with this

    • Business planning and strategy

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