the full scope of an organization's activities, including corporate objectives and organizational boundaries;
matching the activities of an organization to the environment in which it
operates;
ensuring that the internal structures, practices and procedures enable the
organization to achieve its objectives;
matching the activities of an organization to its resource capability, assessing
the extent to which sufficient resources can be provided to take advantage of
opportunities or to avoid threats in the organization's environment;
acquiring, divesting and reallocating resources;
translating the complex and dynamic set of external and internal variables that an organization faces into a structured set of clear future objectives, which can then be implemented on a day-to-day basis.