Strategic Planning Process Stages:
1. Understand the importance of strategic marketing and know a basic outline or a marketing plan
2. Develop an appropriate business mission statement
3. Describe the criteria for stating good marketing objectives
Explain the components of a situation analysis
5. Identify sources of competitive advantage
6. Identify strategic alternatives
7. Discuss target market strategies
8. Describe the elements of the marketing mix
9. Explain why implementation, evaluation, and control of the marketing plan are necessary
10. Identify several techniques that help make strategic planning effective