Strategic management tools refer to components of a software solution for formulating and implementing goals and objectives of a strategy and evaluating its performance. In other words, those tools allow organizing the process of managing strategies that typically include such stages as Strategy Formulation, Strategy Implementation and Strategy Evaluation. You can use such tools to focus on long-term goals and decisions by identifying strategy statements and ensuring all employees of your company have the same vision in mind.

Those solutions aim to provide your company with the next benefits:

• Setting goals and objectives for your strategy.
• Deploying a database for storing documentation on your corporate server.
• Streamlining workflows and processes associated with the implementation of your strategy.
• Focusing attention on key strategic management services to identify issues and achievements.
• Improving strategic decision-making.
• Using performance indicators to review how well your strategy is implemented and whether business objectives and goal are delivered.
• Evaluating your strategy performance.

 VIP Task Manager is a great example of task management software that combines tools for setting, implementing and evaluating strategies by using templates, worksheets, checklists and tasks. VIP Task Manager features Task Tree view that allows building strategy planning templates, step-by-step checklists, implementation to-do lists, and worksheets . In Task Tree view you can use groups and tasks as building blocks for creating a tree-like structure of your strategy. Groups help design levels of the structure while tasks let divide each level into simple activities and actions. Each of the tasks in your strategy structure outline can be specified by using Notes Panel – you can add notes and instructions to the strategy tasks.

 VIP Task Manager is a client-server program so it supports user collaboration and team management allowing you to share information between several users. You can keep your tasks in a shared database and then set user permissions to allow your employees to access the database over LAN.