This article aims to evaluate how factors organizational structure, leadership, culture and communication influence the implementation process of strategic planning, through a case study. The theoretical framework that guided the research used discourse on strategic planning, focusing on its deployment process, as well as posted on culture, structure, leadership and communication and involvement with strategic planning, such references helped in understanding these concepts in the field -work. The research is characterized as a single case study with qualitative approach, where they were used as instruments of data collection: document analysis, semi-structured in-depth questionnaire and systematic observation, data were analyzed qualitatively. The company analyzed was the Santa Luzia Medical Laboratory, for their relevance in the area in which it operates. Through the data collected, it can be seen that for a company to deploy its strategic planning effectively, the latter must be aligned with its culture and its integrated structure, and rely on effective communication and the presence in the organization of leadership involved in the process, those aspects that were mentioned in the theory and found in the empirical study. It can be concluded that although they are integrated, the organizational factors studied - structure, culture, leadership and communication - has reached the strategic planning process in the company analyzed with different intensities, both in terms contribution to its effective implementation, as in with respect to certain limitations.
Planning; Strategy; Implementation
