Luke 14:28-30 says that “Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it? For if you lay the foundation and are not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule you, saying, ‘This person began to build and wasn’t able to finish.”
Thus we can see that there lies very important message and lesson on strategic and operational planning in Luke 14:28-30. It clearly says that both strategic and operational planning and it cannot be done on isolation. For instance a strategy cannot be built and developed without first considering the state of operations today i.e. the current situation. Secondly current operations are conducted in a manner so as to achieve future strategic requirements, future goals and objectives.
In the passage when wanting build a tower one should first analyze the current situation. Only if the current situation is strong enough that will support building a tower then the work for constructing the tower should be started.
A real life example can be given is that of Apple Inc. When Steve Jobs started this company and invested in the company he knew that the company’s operations were unique as they were based on innovative designing and new technologies that will help consumers solve their unmet needs. This led the management of Apple to focus on their operations to innovate and think out of the box. This led to the strategy of developing strong and technologically advanced products like i-pods, i-pads, i-phones etc. Thus in case of Apple its operations and its strategy worked in a perfect synchronization to support each other.
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