The best way to predict the future is to create it! Strategic Planning is a process that determines the future of the organization and the organizational resources that will be needed to ensure that success. Business owners and leaders today have found that developing a strategy and an implementation plan is far more effective than leaving the future to chance. Furthermore, developing a strategy, a vision, a mission, and a specific plan of action contributes to long-term, sustainable success. When implemented correctly, it drives the culture, it creates higher levels of motivation and commitment, and fuels continuously higher levels of achievement from everyone within the organization.