Edward Herzstock - Why Do Some Companies Ignore Strategic Planning?

Many businesses do not engage in strategic planning and those that do so in a poor and ill-conceived manner. The following are some of the causes behind these firms' terrible state of affairs: The main and most important cause for inadequate strategy is a lack of strategic management experience, which is attributable to a scarcity of experienced managers and executives, as well as the presence of individuals who do not comprehend strategic management.- Edward Herzstock The next factor is the ineffective reward system in existence, which rewards success but punishes failures. Top management does not have the time or energy to engage in strategic management since a business is continually battling fires, which means it is engulfed in internal problems. This is frequently the situation in many businesses, where a lack of coherence and control in organizational processes means that the majority of time is spent addressing problems rather than preventing or solving them. Some com...