Strategic Planning

Align portfolios, programs, and execution to business objectives

Connect Strategy to Execution with Strategic Planning

Strategic planning helps organizations translate goals into actionable plans by using objectives and key results (OKRs) to align work, labor, and investments across portfolios. With a clear line of sight from objectives to execution, teams can prioritize and fund the initiatives that deliver the greatest business impact.

Strategic Planning Can…

Capture goals and business cases with a structured framework
Streamline intake for demand planning and initiative prioritization
Evaluate trade-offs and funding options with scenario planning
Track and report value, TCO, and satisfaction metrics
Provide portfolio-level visibility into initiative status, dependencies, and progress towards strategic goals

77%

When organizations can successfully unlock capacity to execute new growth strategies, they increase profitability by 77%.
– Gartner
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Explore how SPM connects strategy to execution in this eBook designed to help organizations align portfolios, programs, and processes while maintaining agility and driving measurable results.

Traditional Strategic Planning Challenges

Disconnect between strategy and execution

Turn strategic objectives into actionable plans and roadmaps, ensuring teams and portfolios stay focused on delivering business outcomes.

Limited visibility across portfolios and initiatives

Gain end-to-end visibility across work, goals, and dependencies to connect business objectives with execution in real time.

Lack ways to measure progress against goals

Track key results, milestones, and portfolio metrics to evaluate progress and support outcome-driven decisions.

Transform Decision-Making with Targetprocess

Establish, track, and manage progress toward strategic objectives.
Link work items to a particular strategic objective, fostering alignment between OKRs and daily work.
Accelerate confident decision-making through the alignment of initiatives, portfolios, and daily work with specific strategies across the enterprise.
Increase transparency with enterprise alignment by connecting all levels to strategy.
Align investments with goals to confidently make future investment decisions.

Typical Customer Outcomes

3% - 5%

YoY increase in ROI from digital initiatives

5X - 10X

Faster decision-making

55%

Increase in alignment to top-line objectives

Power your enterprise strategy with Scenario Planning

Portfolio leaders today must assess multiple strategic options before taking action. Scenario Planning in IBM Targetprocess enables organizations to:

Build and compare multiple plans for the same time period
Account for expected work and resource availability
Model scenarios to understand impact, like changes in headcount or workload

With side-by-side comparisons of scope and capacity, decision-makers can confidently choose the best path forward.

Empower teams and drive agility with OKRs

The modern workplace has changed dramatically as remote work and distributed teams become the norm, challenging leaders to align everyday activities with organizational goals while fostering an inclusive, collaborative environment. Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) give teams clear direction while allowing the flexibility and freedom to choose how they achieve their goals.

Reduced unallocated work by 25% through improved monthly planning and resource visibility
Connected work to strategy by linking initiatives to goals across portfolios
Improved decisions at scale with real-time views of project impact and resource use

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