Strategic Planning in Marketing The process of creating and preserving a strategic alignment between the organisation’s skills and goals and its ever-changing marketing possibilities is known as strategic planning. Strategic planning offers a systematic means of coping with uncertainty and adapting to change. It enables managers to consider how to grasp opportunities and avoid problems, to establish and coordinate appropriate courses of action and to set targets for achievement. 1. Strategy in Marketing Marketing strategy is the process by which businesses and organisations understand their markets and the ways in which they approach convincing profitable customer action. An organisation’s comprehensive plan for drawing in new clients and turning them into buyers of its products or services is called a marketing strategy. High-level elements of a marketing plan include the target customer demographics, value proposition and key messaging for ...