STRATEGIC PLANNING AND GROWTH

This book tries to find if there is a linkage between strategic planning and growth in small businesses. The book explores the degree to which strategic planning is related to growth in small industrial businesses. On one side the book shed light on strategic planning in the small businesses, its significance, the degree of implementation and use, moreover the participation involvement in setting strategic plans and ability to adapt with the internal and external environment to be taken into consideration. On the other side the book dealt with growth in small businesses focusing on four key competitors dimensions of the growth, which are: expansion of: sales/ revenues, customer/ client based, establishment of new locations/ sites, and staff increases.