Tactical Planning is Short range planning that emphasizes the current operations of various parts of the organization.
Short Range is defined as a period of time extending about one year or less in the future.
Managers use tactical planning to outline what the various parts of the organization must do for the organization to be successful at some point 1year or less into the future.
Tactical plans are usually developed in the areas of production, marketing, personnel, finance and plant facilities.
COMPARING AND COORDINATING STRATEGIC & TACTICAL PLANNING:
Basic differences between strategic planning and tactical planning:
- Since upper managers generally have a better understanding of the organization as a whole than lower level managers do, upper management generally develops the strategic plans and because lower level managers generally have better understanding of the day to day organizational operations, generally the lower level managers develop the tactical plans.
- Because Strategic Planning emphasizes analyzing the future and tactical planning emphasizes analysing the everyday functioning of the organization,facts on which to base strategic plans are usually more difficult to gather than are facts on which to base tactical plans.
- Because strategic plans are based primarily on a prediction of the future and tactical plans on known circumstances that exist within the organization, strategic plans are generally less detailed than tactical plans.
- Because strategic planning focuses on the long term and tactical planning on the short term, strategic plans cover a relatively long period of time whereas tactical plans cover a relatively short period of time.
Despite their differences, tactical and strategic planning are integrally related. Manager need both tactical and strategic planning program, and these program must be closely related to be successful.
Tactical planning should focus on what to do in the short term to help the organization achieve the long term objectives determined by strategic planning.
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In essence this means that its the strategic objective that are broken down by the middle managers to create tactical goals! Right?
So in effect the no, 5 difference is that tacticals objectives are derived from strategic goals
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IT IS GOOD ,NOW ONLY I HAVE UNDERSTOOD THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LONG TERM RANGE AND SHART TERM RANGE
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its clearly understood. but what is the difference between Tactical and Operational Planning?
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i now have the better understanding of tactical and strategic plan
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I realLy like this explanation . And n0w i can simply identify what is the difference of the two planning which is strategic and tactical. 🙂
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Nw i got the clear understanding of tactical planning and strategic planning
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thanks. explanation very clear
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there is much similarity between the differencies
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I liked the explanation. Very clear!. Thanks
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Example :
Strategic Planning : The management wants the content Writer
Tactical Planning : Training scheduled for Development Team on new Technology.
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what is the similarities and differences between strategic, operational and tactical?
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