When it comes to ensuring the long-term success of your business, planning is key. Daily successes and failures are only relevant if you understand what you are providing and exactly where you are going. This fundamental is relevant regardless of the size of your business: if you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll never get there. That’s why long-term plans are essential, and that’s why we’ve developed a template specific to strategic planning.
This template is your one-stop-shop for planning the future of your business in the hive — its functionalities provide a key framework on which to build. At its core, this template is designed to help you map out the planning process and break it down into components, helping you examine each stage of the journey in real time and through a wide variety of lenses. Every aspect of the planning process is considered so you can truly define what success looks like for you. To learn more about Hive, click here.
Technically, this model divides a larger project into phases, and these phases can in turn be divided into sub-phases. These can have any type of reference: customer feedback and goals, financial references, product features, and process improvements. Any quantifiable point of progress that you can use to measure your goals against your realities can be defined and measured.
Since the template will define the specific phases and sub-phases of your project, you will need to customize and adapt your workspace according to the specifics of your project. If the template doesn’t fit into the exact categories you need, you can simply edit and update each individual phase and sub-phase. After all, you can’t be expected to plan effectively without a flexible macro view, and that kind of flexible approach was what Hive was designed for. Additionally, since all of these features are part of the core Hive framework, every member of your team that is on the Hive platform will have access to them. It’s the key to effective and creative collaboration, smoothing your workflow and ensuring your team works productively. All of this can happen in real time with Hive chat, allowing your team to work effectively together – open communication is key to a constructive and creative outcome. Plus, Hive apps allow your team to interface without a browser and on the go – everyone can be connected and focused on the task at hand, wherever they are.
Also, if you’re interested in real-time management, be sure to take a closer look at the team view! This allows you to see what each member of your team has assigned at any given time, not only useful as it gives an idea of how your projects are running on a day-to-day basis, but also for troubleshooting if particular parts of your project are running behind schedule. This is just a filter to view your project, but we find that once you break down the long-term plans into the short-term plans, the team view provides great day-to-day visibility. on the progress of the project.
The team view is only one piece of the puzzle, however, and using the strategic planning model effectively depends on making good use of the tools Hive has at your disposal. Here are some tips for long-term success:
- The Gantt chart is more useful than ever in the strategic planning template, giving you the perfect way to define your strategic goals. With this view, identifying long-term plans has never been easier – just establish your key deliverables and map them out, or set solid due dates on a broader timeline. Ensuring dependencies are properly managed is also a breeze with a Gantt chart, so be sure to put it to good use.
- The Kanban board will help you keep tabs on your daily activities, ensuring you keep pace with bigger projects. Since the strategic planning model is primarily goal-driven, the Kanban board is essential for bridging the gap between those goals and your daily and weekly workload.
- The table view is perfect if you want to see your daily progress in real time. Especially if you’ve made good use of the other tools available in Hive, having a good day-to-day overview is key to meeting deadlines and keeping everything running productively.
Be sure to make good use of your Hive analysis tools to diagnose problems as they arise. Achieving strategic goals is about maintaining productivity over the long term. Therefore, analyzing and detecting problems early enough to fix them is critical to your success. Hive Analytics will help you assess individual and team-wide productivity levels so that whenever there is an unexplained drop, you can talk to the right people to determine what the problem is and how you can fix it. solve.
The reports feature can also give you a heads-up display of project milestones, results, and performance. Hive can display detailed project information in multiple ways so that you can easily digest it. And if you can, so can other stakeholders, so there’s never any doubt that your project is headed in a positive direction. Remember, this is just one of many templates, so if you’re trying to get started on another type of project, we’re sure we’ve got something that can get you started. on the right foot.
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