The successful strategic plans

Strategic planning is a very suitable method to effectively manage long-term development of the area. A lot of strategic documents have been made in recent years. There are strategic plans of counties, micro-regions, towns, even larger villages, but unfortunately they are not realized. The aim of my work is not to find out why most of the strategic plans are unsuccessful, but why chosen towns (Dobříš and Vodňany) are such successful in realization of the plans. The information about the process of the strategic planning was acquired from the formal interviews with the processors of the strategic plans, with the mayor or deputy mayor of both towns. There is described the whole process of the strategic planning, from the initial idea to prepare strategic plan until the process of creating the plan, its evaluation, monitoring and updating. Text is supplemented with the ideas and insights of processors, mayors, deputy mayors and authors of a literature dealing with the topic. At the very end are summarized main reasons why strategic planning of these cities successful. Keywords: strategic plannig, city, community method of plannin