Guide the process
Strategic Planning Software guides users through an organization's strategic planning process, focusing on the strategic planning phases that lead to actionable recommendations.
SPS guides students, consultants, and managers through practical strategy models, collaborative project work, and polished PDF reports.
Used by universities, companies, consultants, and business schools.
Strategic Planning Software guides users through an organization's strategic planning process, focusing on the strategic planning phases that lead to actionable recommendations.
Bring real organizational problems into the classroom, consultancy project, or management team with structured tools for strategic decision-making.
Generate detailed PDF and MS Word reports with charts, diagrams, and model outputs that are ready to share with a group or client.
Use established strategic planning models in one workspace, then consolidate the analysis into conclusions and recommendations.
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This fully interactive and innovative web-based software brings the real world of business into the classroom, allowing students to simulate their future roles as managers and decision-makers in an organizational setting.
I found Strategic Planning Software an excellent strategic planning and analysis tool. Its ease of understanding and versatility make it an excellent choice for both small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and international corporations.
The use of Strategic Planning Software during a consultancy project I led for a large UK company helped immensely to structure the work process and facilitated smooth coordination and integration of efforts from seven different team members involved in the project.
Having used Strategic Planning Software's analysis tools online, I can say that it is the best analysis program I have come across. Its ease of use and provision of standard industrial analysis tools allow the evaluation of multiple strategies and scenarios.
The software is a very handy tool for strategic analysis. Its easy-to-follow structure and layout make data input and report generation a simple but effective task. By including factors affecting internal and external analysis, it helped immensely in gathering required data, forming a standard structure, and producing high-quality coursework and presentations. I reckon it is not only a tool for enhancing understanding of strategic analysis but also an essential system for the decision-making process in companies, universities, and even small businesses.
Emanuel Gomes is Full Professor of Strategy and International Business at Nova SBE, where he is Academic Director of Executive Education and was previously Associate Dean for Digital Transformation and Process Improvement. He holds a PhD in Management from Coventry University and spent more than sixteen years in British higher education, including posts at the University of Sheffield and the University of Birmingham.
He is the author of three books and over fifty peer-reviewed articles in journals such as the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Long Range Planning and British Journal of Management. He has served on editorial boards and as a reviewer for international management journals, and as chair, co-chair, track chair and discussant at academic conferences. He is a member of the Africa Research Group, the Academy of International Business, the International Conference of Business Servitization and the European Institute of Mergers and Acquisitions. His research covers internationalisation, strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions, servitisation and strategic agility.
His research is grounded in practice. He has worked with multinationals, SMEs and government bodies on internationalisation, strategic transformation and digital service innovation, through initiatives with UK Trade & Investment, Chatham House, the British Embassy in Angola and the Fundação Eduardo dos Santos, and with companies including MG Motor and UNIPART. He has deep experience of African markets and has worked across automotive and manufacturing, technology and engineering services, professional services, higher education, trade promotion agencies and football.
His teaching is constructivist and hands-on: real cases, simulations and live company projects. He believes sound strategic decisions demand analytical rigour, contextual knowledge and the ability to execute, built through method, exposure to diverse realities and continuous dialogue between academia and practice.
Manuel Fernandes is a software engineer and Head of Engineering at a Lisbon startup that pairs generative AI with a non-invasive neural interface, so that people with ALS, aphasia and other conditions can communicate in their own voice.
Before that, he was a Staff Engineer at Unbabel. Earlier still, he was a Tech Lead and Senior Consultant on e-commerce platforms. He built sites for luxury European brands on Salesforce Commerce Cloud (he is a Salesforce Certified B2C Commerce Developer) and a Drupal and React commerce site. At Merkle he also worked on a high-traffic PHP and AWS e-commerce site with a team spread across Lisbon, Geneva and Tokyo.
He studied Artificial Intelligence at Instituto Superior Técnico and is a guest speaker at Nova School of Business and Economics, where he talks to executives and founders about generative AI and blockchain. His own projects include Text on Stone, a site for minting text-based NFTs, and CryptoCapCalculator.com, which estimates returns on crypto investments.
Manuel is currently the software engineer behind Strategic Planning Software.