Dyson etal (2007) prefer terming the strategic management process a ‘strategic development process.’ They assert that the strategic development process embraces the management process that inform, shape and support the strategic decisions confronting an organization. Their inclination towards the term strategic development process is premised on three key issues which they highlight. Firstly these authors argue that strategy formulation and implementation are inseparable business activities in which organizations engage on a continuous basis; hence the idea of ongoing development is central to their thinking. Their second reason for their approach is that the widely used term ‘strategic planning’ has become debased by association with the creation of deterministic, one-shot 5-and 10-year plans, which suggests rigidity in thinking about the future.