Drawbacks
Strategic planning is definitely not a bed of roses.Itisexpensive,
especially in the amount oftime invested by members at different
levels ofthe organization, andmay seemvery tedious or awaste of
time. Strategic planning may uncover differences or conflicts that
were more or less hidden and which the members had learned to
livewith,thusmakingthe situationduringtheprocess seemworse
than before. Given that SP not an exact science, a genuine fear is
that even with good SP an organization may still fail. However, in
changingor turbulent environments,the riskoffailure isobviously
greater when no plan exists.