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Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions

on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy. In order to determine the direction of the organization, it

is necessary to understand its current position and the possible avenues through which it can pursue a

particular course of action. Generally, strategic planning deals with at least one of three key questions.

1. "What do we do?"
2. "For whom do we do it?"
3. "How do we excel?"

In many organizations, this is viewed as a process for determining where an organization is going over

the next year or—more typically—3 to 5 years (long term), although some extend their vision to 20 years.

1. Vision: Outlines what the organization wants to be, or how it wants the world in which it operates to be
(an "idealised" view of the world). It is a long-term view and concentrates on the future.


It can be emotive and is a source of inspiration. For example, a charity working with the poor might have a vision
statement which reads "A World without Poverty".


2. Mission: Defines the fundamental purpose of an organization or an enterprise, succinctly describing why it exists
and what it does to achieve its vision. For example, the charity above might have a mission statement as
"providing jobs for the homeless and unemployed".


3. Values: Beliefs that are shared among the stakeholders of an organization. Values drive an organization's culture
and priorities and provide a framework in which decisions are made. For example, "Knowledge and skills are the
keys to success" or "give a man bread and feed him for a day, but teach him to farm and feed him for life".
These example values may set the priorities of self sufficiency over shelter.


4. Strategy: Strategy, narrowly defined, means "the art of the general." A combination of the ends (goals) for
which the firm is striving and the means (policies) by which it is seeking to get there. A strategy is sometimes
called a roadmap which is the path chosen to plow towards the end vision. The most important part of
implementing the strategy is ensuring the company is going in the right direction which is towards the end vision.

Organizations sometimes summarize goals and objectives into a mission statement and/or a vision statement.
Others begin with a vision and mission and use them to formulate goals and objectives.

Many people mistake the vision statement for the mission statement, and sometimes one is simply used as
a longer term version of the other. However they are meant to be quite different, with the vision being a
descriptive picture of future state, and the mission being an action statement for bringing about what is
envisioned (ie. the vision is what will be achieved if the company is successful in achieving its mission).

For an organisation's vision and mission to be effective, they must become assimilated into the organization's culture.
They should also be assessed internally and externally.


The internal assessment should focus on how members inside the organization interpret their mission statement.
The external assessment — which includes all of the businesses stakeholders — is valuable since it offers a
different perspective.


These discrepancies between these two assessments can provide insight into their effectiveness.

Strategic planning process

There are many approaches to strategic planning but typically one of the following approaches is used:

Situation-Target-Proposal Situation - evaluate the current situation and how it came about. Target - define goals and/or objectives (sometimes called ideal state) Path / Proposal - map a possible route to the goals/objectives

See-Think-Draw

• See - what is today's situation?
• Think - define goals/objectives
• Draw - map a route to achieving the goals/objectives

Draw-See-Think-Plan

• Draw - what is the ideal image or the desired end state?
• See - what is today's situation? What is the gap from ideal and why?
• Think - what specific actions must be taken to close the gap between today's situation and the ideal state?
• Plan - what resources are required to execute the activities?

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Tools and approaches

Among the most useful tools for strategic planning is SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities,
and Threats). The main objective of this tool is to analyze internal strategic factors, strengths and weaknesses
attributed to the organization, and external factors beyond control of the organization such as opportunities and
threats.

Other tools include:

• Balanced Scorecards, which creates a systematic framework for strategic planning;
• Scenario planning, which was originally used in the military and recently used by large corporations to analyze
• future scenarios.
• PEST analysis (Political, Economic, Social, and Technological)
• STEER analysis (Socio-cultural, Technological, Economic, Ecological, and Regulatory factors)
• EPISTEL (Environment, Political, Informatic, Social, Technological, Economic and Legal).

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Situational analysis

When developing strategies, analysis of the organization and its environment as it is at the moment and how it
may develop in the future, is important. The analysis has to be executed at an internal level as well as an
external level to identify all opportunities and threats of the external environment as well as the strengths and
weaknesses of the organizations.

There are several factors to assess in the external situation analysis:

1. Markets (customers)
2. Competition
3. Technology
4. Supplier markets
5. Labor markets
6. The economy
7. The regulatory environment

It is rare to find all seven of these factors having critical importance. It is also uncommon to find that the
first two - markets and competition - are not of critical importance.
(Bradford "External Situation - What to Consider")

Strategic planning is a very important business activity. It is also important in the public sector areas such as
education. It is practiced widely informally and formally. Strategic planning and decision processes should end
with objectives and a roadmap of ways to achieve them. The goal of strategic planning mechanisms like formal
planning is to increase specificity in business operation, especially when long-term and high-stake activities
are involved.

One of the core goals when drafting a strategic plan is to develop it in a way that is easily translatable into
action plans. Most strategic plans address high level initiatives and over-arching goals, but don't get articulated
(translated) into day-to-day projects and tasks that will be required to achieve the plan.


Terminology or word choice, as well as the level a plan is written, are both examples of easy ways to fail at
translating your strategic plan in a way that makes sense and is executable to others. Often, plans are filled
with conceptual terms which don't tie into day-to-day realities for the staff expected to carry out the plan.


People typically have several goals at the same time. "Goal congruency" refers to how well the goals combine
with each other. Does goal A appear compatible with goal B? Do they fit together to form a unified strategy?
"Goal hierarchy" consists of the nesting of one or more goals within other goal(s).

One approach recommends having short-term goals, medium-term goals, and long-term goals. In this model,
one can expect to attain short-term goals fairly easily: they stand just slightly above one's reach.
At the other extreme, long-term goals appear very difficult, almost impossible to attain.

Strategic management jargon sometimes refers to "Big Hairy Audacious Goals" (BHAGs) in this context.
Using one goal as a stepping-stone to the next involves goal sequencing. A person or group starts by
attaining the easy short-term goals, then steps up to the medium-term, then to the long-term goals.
Goal sequencing can create a "goal stairway". In an organizational setting, the organization may co-ordinate
goals so that they do not conflict with each other. The goals of one part of the organization should mesh
compatibly with those of other parts of the organization.

System Pyramid

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 are 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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Untuk si "dia" yang berwarna "merah"...

Hampir genap satu minggu rutinitas belakangan agak sedikit berubah dari biasanya, biasanya si macan hitam yang menemani kesana kemari, hehe... kini si macan hitam telah berganti menjadi si merah ... si "dia" yang berwarna "merah"... (mobil timor dohc keluaran tahun 1997).

Apa yang menjadi latar belakang hingga Saya akhirnya memilih untuk sedikit melompat menggunakan roda empat ini dikarenakan antara lain, 1. pajak si macan yang telah masuk 5 tahun habis, 2. kondisi si macan yang boleh dibilang sudah uzur (patah dan karatan sana sini), 3. keinginan untuk melengkapi kebutuhan keluarga, dimana kebutuhan akan mobilitas menggunakan si roda empat ini telah menjadi sangat penting, 4. sudah waktunya untuk berubah, 5. Kemauan si penjual mobil untuk bertukar dengan si macan (alias si macan menjadi DP si merah).

Bicara mengenai mobil yang pernah menjadi salah satu grand project di era presiden soeharto ini, bukanlah hal dan alasan yang terlalu menarik perhatian Saya untuk mengambil nya, namun dikarenakan sesuatu dan lain hal yang boleh dikatakan kebetulan dan kerja iseng lah yang akhirnya membuat hal tersebut terjadi. 

Bukan hal yang mudah juga untuk merawat dan menempatkan si merah ini dengan kondisi rumah yang tidak memiliki halaman lebih untuk dijadikan sebagai tempat bersandar si merah, butuh sedikit penyesuaian, butuh sedikit kepercayaan diri dan cost tertentu pula.

Kini si macan telah pergi, dan si merah menjadi pengganti, kegunaan si merah pun terasa ketika seluruh keluarga bisa menikmati dengan segala keterbatasan si merah (yach namanya juga mobkas, banyak dandan, banyak cingcong kalo kata orang Palembang gitu :p ). 

Ada hal yang lucu juga ketika si merah dah waktunya untuk di selimuti di kala hari berganti (maksudnya malem gitu), saya terpaksa harus menunggu tetangga untuk benar-benar telah masuk ke rumah (motor parkir etc), kadang sampai jam 10.00, 11.00 yach tentatif > jam 10.00 an, baru dech si merah ngelongsor merapat di teras bersama kepunyaan tetangga.

Di pagi hari pun begitu, jam 05.00 teng, si merah harus sudah out lagi, (hehe, kadang sambil pake sarung + rambut mohak abis bangun pagi) si merah dikembalikan lagi ke lapangan yang menjadi fasum di daerah kami, begitulah dinamika hari-hari belakangan ini (inzet kalau kata orang Palembang: kalo dak dikejutke gawe ne dak bakalan jadi).

 

Dengan adanya si merah pun aktifitas pagi bertambah (apalagi seperti disaat musim penghujan ini), dipoles terus, dimandiin, disemir etc.

Mudah-mudahan dengan kehadiran si merah akan membawa manfaat lebih (itulah do'a Saya ketika meminta untuk dimudahkan atau disulitkan ketika pertama kali bertemu si merah).

Note: Kalo dak dikejutke gawe ni dak bakalan jadi.

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SOPA and PIPA

Full title	"To promote prosperity, creativity, entrepreneurship, and innovation by combating the theft of U.S. property, and for other purposes." —H.R. 3261[1]
Acronym	SOPA
Colloquial name(s)

SOPA and PIPA: Just the Facts

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) have been making headlines, but what are they, exactly? Here are the facts.

The Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act are getting more negative attention, as major websites such asWikipedia plan to protest the bills with blackouts on Wednesday. Even Google will join the action, with a link on its homepage explaining why the company opposes the legislation.

But what are SOPA and PIPA, exactly, and why are tech luminaries lambasting legislation aimed at stamping out copyright infringement? Read on for a full explanation.

SOPA and PIPA: The Basics

Media companies are always looking for new ways to fight piracy. They've tried suing individual users, getting Internet service providers to take action against subscribers, and working with the U.S. government to shut down domains based in the United States. But none of those actions can stop overseas websites such as The Pirate Bay and MegaUpload from infringing copyrights, or prevent Internet users from accessing those sites.

Enter SOPA, in the U.S. House of Representatives, and PIPA, in the U.S. Senate. Both bills are aimed at foreign websites that infringe copyrighted material. The bills are commonly associated with media piracy, but may also apply to counterfeit consumer goods and medication.

Originally, both bills provided two methods for fighting copyright infringement on foreign websites. In one method, the U.S. Department of Justice could seek court orders requiring Internet service providers to block the domain names of infringing sites. For example, Comcast could prevent its customers from accessing thepiratebay.org, although the underlying IP address would still be reachable. This ISP-blocking provision was a major concern among Internet security experts, and both SOPA and PIPA have dropped it.

The other tool would allow rights holders to seek court orders requiring payment providers, advertisers, and search engines to stop doing business with an infringing site. In other words, rights holders would be able to request that funding be cut off from an infringing site, and that search links to that site be removed. The site in question would have five days to appeal any action taken.

Although the House and Senate bills are similar, SOPA is the more extreme of the two. It defines a "foreign infringing site" as any site that is "committing or facilitating" copyright infringement, whereas PIPA is limited to sites with "no significant use other than" copyright infringement. More details on SOPA and PIPA are available through the Library of Congress website.

Arguments for and Against SOPA and PIPA

Opponents of SOPA and PIPA believe that neither piece of legislation does enough to protect against false accusations. As the Electronic Frontier Foundation argues, provisions in the bill grant immunity to payment processors and ad networks that cut off sites based on a reasonable belief of infringement, so even if claims turn out to be false, only the site suffers. "The standard for immunity is incredibly low and the potential for abuse is off the charts," says the EFF.

Meanwhile, sites that host user-generated content will be under pressure to closely monitor users' behavior. That monitoring already happens on larger sites such as YouTube, but it could be a huge liability for startups, the EFF argues.

Some progressive pundits have argued that media companies are trying to legislate their way out of what's really a business-model problem. "As we've seen over and over again, the most successful (by far) 'attack' against piracy is awesome new platforms that give customers what they want, such as Spotify and Netflix," TechDirt's Mike Masnick writes.

SOPA and PIPA supporters argue that prophecies of a broken Internet are overblown. Cary Sherman, CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America, writes that SOPA clearly defines infringing sites based on Supreme Court holdings and the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, and requires rights holders to follow a strict set of rules when trying to get payment cut off to an infringing site. False claims, Sherman argues, "can result in damages, including costs and attorneys' fees."

Sherman also points out that previous actions against infringing sites, such as the MGM vs. Grokster case in 2005, triggered similar doomsday predictions from the tech industry, yet digital music innovation has flourished since then.

Who's for SOPA and PIPA, and Who's Against?

Representative Lamar Smith (R-Texas) is the author of SOPA, which is backed by 31 cosponsors in the House. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) wrote PIPA, which has 40 cosponsors in the Senate. ProPublica has a visualized list of supporters in both the House and Senate.

The White House has expressed concerns about the bills in their current state, writing in a statement that "any effective legislation should reflect a wide range of stakeholders, including everyone from content creators to the engineers that build and maintain the infrastructure of the Internet."

As for outside parties, the list of SOPA supporters consists mostly of media companies, including record labels, TV networks, movie studios, and book publishers. Some companies with an interest in fighting sales of other counterfeit goods, such as beauty-product maker Revlon and pharmaceutical company Pfizer, also appear on the list.

Opposition to SOPA and PIPA is strong in the tech sector. An open letter to Washington speaking out against the legislation was signed by founders of Craigslist, eBay, Google, Mozilla, Twitter, and Wikipedia, among others.

In the middle are companies at the intersection of media and technology. Many video game publishers have stayed silent on the matter while their trade group, the Entertainment Software Association, supports the bills. The Business Software Alliance originally supported the bill, butwithdrew its support after deciding that the legislation went too far. As for Apple and Microsoft, which are both BSA members, the former has not come out publicly for or against SOPA or PIPA, while the latter now says that it opposes SOPA "as currently drafted."

Where Are SOPA and PIPA Now?

Both bills have taken a hit in the last week, as their authors have decided to remove the provisions that require Internet service providers to block the domain names of infringing sites. SOPA, which has yet to pass out of the House Judiciary Committee, is reportedly stalled, as lawmakers continue to work on the bill. Representative Darrell Issa (R-California) has proposed an alternative bill that is far more narrow in its focus.

Voting on PIPA, however, is scheduled to begin in the Senate on January 24.

UPDATE: (2pm ET 1/18) Now two U.S. Senators are withdrawing their sponsorships of PIPA. Sen. Marco Rubio, of Florida, wrote on Facebook that although he has a strong interest in stopping piracy, "we must do this while simultaneously promoting an open, dynamic Internet environment that is ripe for innovation and promotes new technologies." Senator Roy Blunt, of Missouri, also bailed on the bill, writing on Facebook that "the Protect IP Act is flawed as it stands today, and I cannot support it moving forward

Courtesy of : http://www.pcworld.com/article/248298/sopa_and_pipa_just_the_facts.html

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Voice from heaven

Lara Fabian, is a one of greatest singer woman in the world now, her name was became such an iconic, especially for the top class of european musician, altough she was from there surely. I was just listening her beauty voice when I get a full pack of concert dvd of "David Foster and friends 2011" from one of source on internet. he... it's all you can get from this and those "cable".

In that concert dvd, David was showing his lead to manage all the "the great talent" to become part of they own characteristic. Of course in addition he also have a style of what we called "magnetic entertainment" too.

An ability of the "Hitman" David Foster really is no doubt, he and his bands have worked more than 30 years to produce wide range of genius hits on all around the world.

Back to... Lara fabian, ok now why from all the friends of David I choose Lara as the most of shining star on that full pack? Yeah, absolutely because of her style beibeh... (beauty expression which she have !!! ), an emotion that comes out of when she sing !!! and of course her soft lovely voice... oh God, there's no such an original like that, I'm in love for sure !!!

I'm personal can get her heaven voice, when she sing in lower band, exactly in a long tone like a song called "Caruso", you can hear most softly voice on this planet !!! a maestro, a diva... :)



 

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