Strategic planning offers a process for moving from the overall long-range (10-to-20-year) goals and objectives of a comprehensive decision to more specific short-term initiatives and actions. Strategic planning focuses on a couple of priority issues and deals with the community's social and economic issues, also as its physical development (something typically emphasized in comprehensive plans). Also, strategic planning includes an action plan with clearly defined timetables and responsibilities, while the great plan tends to supply general guidance for deciding.