It's impossible to imagine a successfully managed small-sized organization without a well-thought-out business strategy template. Business management best practices requires you to carry out the strategic business planning process to set the strategic goals of your company and state the key direction of business activities. In this article we'll focus on strategic business planning, review the definition, output and role of this process.
The audit of the business management environment starts with investigating the foundation of any organization – strategic planning. Business strategic planning identifies what goals the organization is supposed to achieve and determines how it should act to reach the destination. Auditing strategic planning allows the auditor to get insight into the company's top-level goals and expectations and then compare the current status of the goals with the plans. Below we present the definition and key elements of the strategic planning process and outline a list of questions for auditing the process.