The team must winnow these to a half-dozen critical issues to bring focus to your strategic plan. Set strategic objectives. The planning rubber meets the road when you set strategic objectives to pursue in the coming years to address your critical issues. With two or three strategic objectives for each critical issue, you can easily end up with 15 to 25 possibilities. Once again, you must prioritize and select a limited number.
Planning sets the context in which to do certain things.
They specify a responsible person, the timeframe, the human and financial resources required and the people to whom progress is regularly reported. Communicate your plan. Your strategic plan is a public document. The more people who know what you are trying to achieve, the more ideas will bubble up for you to use. Do what you plan to do, be alert to opportunities that are better than your plan and adjust your plan accordingly.