HR Strategic Planning: Key Concepts

• Approaches to project management (e.g., traditional, lean, Six Sigma, agile, critical chain) and processes (e.g., initiating, planning and design, launching/executing, monitoring and controlling, closing)
• Concepts of systems thinking (e.g., related parts, input-processes-output) and components of an organizational system (e.g., interdependence, the necessity of feedback, differentiation of units)
• Organizational mission, vision, and values, and their relation to strategic management and planning
• Project planning, monitoring, and reporting methods and tools (e.g., critical path analysis, Gantt charts, variance analysis, outcome monitoring)
• Project leadership, governance, and structures (e.g., team roles, team management, work breakdown structures)
• Role of strategic management and planning in creating and sustaining competitive advantage
• Strategic planning analysis frameworks (e.g., PESTLE analysis, SWOT analysis, industry analysis, scenario planning, growth-share matrix)
• Strategic planning process (e.g., formulation, goal-setting, implementation, evaluation)
• Systems theory and input-process-output models