Yesterday we got a response from one of our readers asking ‘why do we have to plan all and every thing?’ Interesting question, and the answer is also interesting ‘for being better than others’. Planning each and everything means you are involving in them deeply, you are searching for better options and you are certainly doing above average. Remember, the barriers between successes and survival, and survival and failure is too narrow.

Although you can do most business practices without any planning and experience, strategic plans provide you the chance to create better plans by filling in gaps, to plan in a manner that most suits your business needs, helps to getter better employee understanding and collaboration, provide opportunities to spot weaknesses, helps to clearly defines missions, goals and opportunities, and to evaluate the results.

Most strategic business plans also offers the below advantages.

• Helps to create long-term and short term plans, in a way that both complements each other.
• Helps to do better than your normal thinking competitor.
• It teaches company about when to act, when to react and how to react.
• Act as reference of future plans, strategies and processes.
• Act as a core process, to which you can add or delete anything to get better results.
• It better organizes your businesses.