Throughout my career I have been part of both highly organized and highly disorganized strategic planning processes. Whether you are building an Annual Operating Plan (AOP) or a Long Range Business Plan (LRBP) making sure that you have organizational alignment around key initiatives and inter-dependencies is crucial for success. Even more crucial is measuring your performance and comparing how you did compared to what you said you were going to do across all aspects of the plan from key customer engagement, to operating metrics, to initiative performance and financial objectives. This article does a great job of summarizing an approach: Strategic Planning