To avoid redundancy, the term strategic planner will refer to both the corporate and SBU strategic planners. Where the role and responsibilities of the two are different, each will be identified.
2.
For an explanation of the importance of using a group in strategic planning see EigermanM.R., ‘Who Should be Responsible for Strategy?’Journal of Business Strategy, November/December 1988, pp. 40–44.
3.
One approach to identifying, assessing, and classifying managers on the basis of disposition and strategic thinking capability is the use of an in-depth interview accompanied by an instrument such as Styles of Strategic Thinking, by Robert T. Hogan, John E. Dillard, Jr., and Donald L. Bates (Tulsa, OK: Hogan Assessment Systems, 1988).
