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Total Quality Management - CII Institute of Logistics

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<strong>Total</strong> <strong>Quality</strong> <strong>Management</strong><br />

1.11 Strategic Planning for <strong>Quality</strong><br />

Strategy<br />

A strategy is a pattern or plan that integrates an organization's major goals, policies<br />

and action sequences into a cohesive whole. Formal strategies contain three elements:<br />

1. Goals to be achieved.<br />

2. Policies that guide or limit action.<br />

3. Action sequences, or programs, that accomplish the goals.<br />

The leading practices for firms that do effective strategic planning include:<br />

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Both top management and employees actively participate in the planning<br />

process.<br />

They use customer wants and needs to drive the strategy.<br />

They involve suppliers in the strategic planning process.<br />

They have well-established feedback systems for continuous measurement<br />

and re-evaluation <strong>of</strong> the planning process.<br />

Steps in Strategic Planning<br />

The steps in the strategic planning process are shown in Figure 3. Once the company's<br />

mission, vision, and guiding principles have been determined, the organization must<br />

assess the gap as to where it is now, and where it wants to be as described in its vision.<br />

Using this assessment, it must then develop goals, strategies, and objectives that will<br />

enable it to bridge this gap.<br />

<strong>CII</strong> <strong>Institute</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Logistics</strong> 28<br />

Website: www.ciilogistics.com

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