The term 'strategy' is military in origin and was coined during the time of Napoleon. The word was derived from the Greek 'strategos' which means 'Generalship' or 'the art of the General .
Strategy is what Generals do in developing broad battle plans for winning a war.
Strategy is concerned with controlling an organization's destiny and achieving stated goals while planning is a formalized procedure to produce an articulated result, in the form of an integrated system of decisions.