Strategic planning is an open-minded department so it should work in coordination and interaction with
other departments and this is a negative condition for an employee who want to do his/her own job.
Organizational Goals:Overall profile of the institution: a systematic structure emerges where not too
much visionary inside and tried to reach the goals with ideals. This reputable company, has tried to reach
financial target with predicted plans and the company has perspective filled with realistic goals. Growth
inEurope is one of the main goals of the company as expressed by the managers. Growth target and
profitability are parallel items and strategic outcomes are conclude within the center of the holding.
There is flexibility inside the company and that means,the projects are completed in three months rather
than one year. However, the disadvantage of this flexibility sometimes lead some errors and problems
within the system.
Strategic Planning Process: The Practice school focuses on the management level and offered a
perspective on how the strategists generating strategies. Practice school approach shift the concern from
core competencies of the company to the manager who is described as strategist and the ability to
practice. At this point, our findings are compatible with the strategy-as-practice perspective. Namely, the
strategic planning process has formed after a while. In decision-making process, targets have revised
once a year. Top management are setting the focus on targets and there is a collective decision-making
process, comfortable and participatory point of view and commitment present.
In organization, control is not in one hand and the integration is provided. In the strategic planning
process, projects are carried out incoordination with different units and balance between departments are
established. According to the managers, there can be ongoingprojects at the same time and resources are
determined in accordance with needs, size and importance. Finally, holding is decisive in investments
which are financially at a certain rate. Strategy-as-practice perspective also focuses on acts and
interactions during the strategy-making process of managers and consultants. According to the findings,
managers are experiencing some conflicts in the strategic planning process and these conflicts cause
barriers to achieve their goals. For example, strategic planning unit conflicts with sales department
seriously. One of the reason is, strategic planning department has to think in long-term perspective
however, sales department has short-term and daily goals. It takes time for teams to recognize each other
and the requirement to speak in commonlanguage can also create problems.
The most closest unit for the strategic planning department is operational department which they work in
coordination and reconciliation. When we asked the question about the requirements to work in strategic
planning unit, they mentioned the importance of to see the big picture and see the environment in a wide
perspective.
Corporate Reputation: In the context of iceberg metaphor, artifacts are on the surface layer of the water.
These are, behavior, technology, traditions, stories, language, physical symbols which are observable
phenomena (Schein 1992; Pedersen ve Sorensen 1989 as cited in Işık ve Gürsel, 2009). In the context of
strategy-as-practice perspective, the artifacts inthe organization are investigated. So the findings showed
that corporate reputation arised as a result of the parts which are at the top of the iceberg metaphor.
Namely, they mentioned that, they protected the balance between being modest and reputable with the
help of the culture coming from the co-founders. The reputable company is environmentally conscious
with social responsibility projects and it takes place in the market with solutions, economic and needbased products which are consuming less. Thus, corporate reputation is crucial for the organization. They
statedthat, corporate reputation is beyond earning money or profit.