Enterprise-wide Strategic Planning and Management System

Strategic planning, like many other information intensive functions, remains more of an art than a science. One reason for this involves a general inability to efficiently and effectively manage information. This inability to cleanly, collect, interpret,and analyze information results in making many more subjective decisions as we carry out complicated processes such as strategic planning. And the problem seems to worsen as the number of participants in a process increase, and as the physical distancebetween these participants increases. Three emerging technologies can help solve this problem. They include the Internet, advanced data collection and consensus buliding software systems, and wireless technology. This effort address how to use thesetechnologies to solve this problem.Use of the Internet, groupware, and wireless technology will have a dramatic impact on the cost of creating and managing strategic plans, will improve the quality of such plans, and will greatly reduce the time requiredto perform this function.