Specific objectives need to be agreed but could include:

• review and respond to changes and trends in their organisations external operating environment
• identify existing and potential competitors and collaborators
• assess their organisation's strengths and weaknesses and internal capabilities
• create and develop an organisational mission, strategies, objectives, policies, values and behaviours
• identify the relevant critical success factors that must be addressed if success is to be achieved
• examine the positive and negative driving forces in support of CSF's and change
• gain support and commitment for the strategy and its elements
• propose, evaluate and negotiate agreement for programmes, projects and plans to meet objectives
• create plans and enable them to be implemented by providing resources, by delegating responsibility and authority, and by monitoring progress
• establish measurement criteria for strategies and evaluate progress and performancez link requirements to capability, to HR Development