NOA Research LLC (NOA) excels at strategic planning.  Let our experts help to define your organization’s process of formulating its strategy, or direction, and making decisions for allocating its resources to pursue this strategy. In order to determine the direction of your organization, it is necessary to understand your current position and the possible avenues through which you can pursue a particular course of action.

Generally, strategic planning deals with at least one of three key questions:

  1. “What do we do?”
  2. “For whom do we do it?”
  3. “How do we excel?

The key components of  our formulation of  ‘strategic planning’ for your project includes an understanding of your firm or project’s vision, mission, values and strategies.

  • Vision: Let us help to outline what your organization or project  wants to be, or how it wants the world in which it operates to be (an “idealized” view of the world). It is a long-term view and concentrates on the future. It can be emotive  and is a source of inspiration. For example, a charity working with the poor might have a vision statement which reads “A World without Poverty.”
  • Mission:  We will help to define the fundamental purpose of your organization or an enterprise, succinctly describing why it exists and what it does to achieve its vision. For example, the charity above might have a mission statement as “providing jobs for the homeless and unemployed”.
  • Values:  We can help to organize and identify the beliefs that are shared among the stakeholders of your organization. Values drive your  organization or initiative’s culture and priorities and provides a framework in which decisions are made. For example, “Knowledge and skills are the keys to success” or “give a man bread and feed him for a day, but teach him to farm and feed him for life”. These example maxims may set the priorities of self-sufficiency over shelter.
  • Strategy:  Most importantly we will help to develop strategy, which narrowly defined, means “the art of the general” a combination of the ends (goals) for which the firm is striving and the means (policies) by which it is seeking to get there. A strategy is sometimes called a road map – which is the path chosen to plow towards the end vision. The most important part of implementing the strategy is ensuring your company or project is going in the right direction which is towards the end vision.