... strategic plan for, typically,the next five years ahead. The strategic plan becomes the frameworkwithin which the company will develop its more detailed businessplans and the financing plan with ... implementation,review and feedback. Typically, the planning loop would be of sixmonths’ duration. As the strategic planning routines becomeimplanted in management culture, so the process will ... issue of strategic thinking and planning is no less relevant to thesmallest private business. Often, all that is needed is for a contraryapproach to be taken in the planning process to try and anticipate...