Planning vs. Strategy — What's the Difference?

Planning is the process of thinking about the activities required to achieve a desired goal. It is the first and foremost activity to achieve desired results.

Strategy (from Greek στρατηγία stratēgia, "art of troop leader; office of general, command, generalship") is a general plan to achieve one or more long-term or overall goals under conditions of uncertainty. In the sense of the "art of the general", which included several subsets of skills including military tactics, siegecraft, logistics etc., the term came into use in the 6th century C.E. in Eastern Roman terminology, and was translated into Western vernacular languages only in the 18th century.

The process of making plans for something

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

An orderly or step-by-step conception or proposal for accomplishing an objective

The science and art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of large-scale combat operations.

A proposed or intended course of action

A plan of action resulting from strategy or intended to accomplish a specific goal.

A systematic arrangement of elements or important parts; a configuration or outline

The art or skill of using stratagems in endeavors such as politics and business.

A drawing or diagram made to scale showing the structure or arrangement of something.

The science and art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of warfare.

In perspective rendering, one of several imaginary planes perpendicular to the line of vision between the viewer and the object being depicted.

A plan of action intended to accomplish a specific goal.

A program or policy stipulating a service or benefit

The use of advance planning to succeed in politics or business.

To formulate a scheme or program for the accomplishment, enactment, or attainment of

The science of military command, or the science of projecting campaigns and directing great military movements; generalship.

To have as a specific aim or purpose; intend

The use of stratagem or artifice.

To draw or make a graphic representation of.

An elaborate and systematic plan of action

To make plans.

The branch of military science dealing with military command and the planning and conduct of a war

Present participle of plan

(uncountable) Action of the verb to plan.

The act of formulating of a course of action, or of drawing up plans.

The act of making contingency plans.

Planning permission.

An act of formulating a program for a definite course of action;

The act or process of drawing up plans or layouts for some project or enterprise

The cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening;