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Strategic Planning
Build the Plan Your Board Will Sign — and Your Team Will Own
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Six phases, six weeks, one artifact a week, ending in a boardroom with a signature — from a team that signed first.
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About the book
Your board doesn't want a vision. It wants a plan it can sign.
Most strategy dies in the binder. The plan is written, presented, and admired, and by March nobody in the building can recite it. The Strategy Management Process is the fix: six phases, six weeks, one artifact a week, ending in a boardroom with a signature — from a team that signed first.
Situation. Framework. Business Plan. Deployment. Cadence. Boardroom. Each phase produces one page a director could read in ten minutes, and each page is the raw material for the next. Then the same six phases stretch across the calendar year and the thousand days of a private-equity hold, so the number stays likely every year after.
The whole process runs on one company — Ironwood Process Components, five plants, nine hundred people, fourteen months into a sponsor's hold — with every number reconciled from the first chapter to the last. You need a number, a date, eight people, six weeks, and the willingness to say no in writing.
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Before you choose
Use this book when a strategy has to become a plan the leadership team owns and the board can review. The six-week sequence produces an artifact at each phase, rather than stopping at a presentation.
The CEO, the CFO, and the eight people who build the plan.
This book concentrates on building and committing to the plan. The Strategy Deployment Process is its companion for running that plan. The Strategy masterclass and the longer Strategy Made Simple Install are separate learning choices; neither is included in a standalone book purchase.
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Where it fits · PGOS
Build the plan, align operations and deliver it.
“What is the plan, and how does it become the number?” Every year
How to use it
Run it with the CEO, the CFO and the eight people who build the plan: Situation, Framework, Business Plan, Deployment, Cadence, Boardroom — one page a week, each the raw material for the next. Then stretch the same six phases across the calendar year so the number stays likely every year after. The Field Guide holds the six artifacts and the Commitment Page.
Read it with The Strategy Deployment Process · Ambiguity — The Strategy Management Process builds the plan. The Strategy Deployment Process delivers it.
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The companion
Fillable PDF available
The six artifacts, the Commitment Page, and every instrument from the book — a workbook for the eight.
Letter-size, built to be written in. Print and fillable PDF. The book keeps the narrative; the guide holds the working paper.
The author
Bill Canady runs two billion-dollar-plus companies — one at $1.1 billion and one at $1.5 billion — as Chairman and CEO of Arrowhead Engineered Products and Chairman of OTC Industrial Technologies. Across global industrial markets he has delivered over $3 billion in shareholder value. A U.S. Navy veteran with an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, he created the Profitable Growth Operating System (PGOS). He is the author of The 80/20 CEO, The Rule of Three, and other books in the Eighty20 library.
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