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Five Steps to an Effective Strategic Plan
Stop lurching from crisis to crisis. Take the long view to find business value in security by forming a strategic plan.
By Sarah D. Scalet
Oh, and one other thing: This is a chance for the security department to gain some business cred too. Without strategic planning, "what we're doing is lurching from challenge to challenge, from crisis to crisis," says British American Tobacco's Burrill (the 10-year planner). "If we do that, the security function is always going to remain something which lacks real substance in the eyes of the other functions. Security is almost the baby when it comes to true, accepted credibility.
"We have something to prove."
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