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Strategic planning, in its generic form, is an essential tool for any homeland security agency to be successful. While homeland security-specific strategic planning will be explored in future segments of this course, it is important to develop a solid understanding of the underlying principles of effective strategic planning processes that public entities faced with a highly dynamic operating environment employ to be successful.

• In homeland security, a poorly designed and executed strategic plan will, at a minimum, waste critical resources and time. At worse, a poorly designed and executed homeland security strategic plan may leave the nation, a state, or a community unnecessarily vulnerable to a threat that may pose a catastrophic risk. With so much at stake, homeland security organizations must develop and execute sound strategic plans.

Write 300-400 words that respond to the following questions:

Question a. What are the phases of a typical strategic plan? How do they differ between goals-based, issues-based, and organic approaches to strategic planning?Which approach do you think would work best for a homeland security organization?

Question b. The strategic planning process can bring on organizational change that can sometimes be met with resistance.

• What strategies do you think can be employed to minimize resistance to change? Explain.

Question c. No matter what strategic planning process an organization chooses to follow, trade-offs and negotiations are important aspects. What are one or more successful strategies that you feel can be utilized to move the planning process forward? Explain.