Strategic planning is viewed as a way to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of an organization

by improving its operations both now and in the future. Strategic planning forms a framework for
management to formulate a vision, mission and objectives that will guide the organization achieve
its intended goals. The strategic management process is used by the management to set objectives,
goals and schedule activities for achieving the set goals. This also includes establishing ways of
monitoring, evaluating and measuring progress. This study is aimed at examining strategic planning
practices at the Kenyan Judiciary. The research design used was a case study. The researcher used
primary sources of data for this study .The primary data was collected through an interview guide.
This allowed the respondents sufficient time to respond to questions asked bearing in mind that the
interviews were administered during working hours. The interviewees of the study were Registrars
for the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, High Court and magistrate courts. Also interment were
directors for Information Communication Technology, Human Resource, Performance
Management, and Finance. The collected data was examined for completeness and clarity and was
analyzed using content analysis. The findings show that there is a strategic plan at the Kenyan
Judiciary. The study established that the Kenyan Judiciary applies the following strategic planning
practices; developing of key strategies that contribute to the overall vision, development of specific
measurable realistic and time bound strategic goals, communication of organizational vision,
mission and key policies, development of short and long term operational goals; subdividing goals
and allocating sub-goals with careful attention to details, participating, schedules and milestones,
monitoring and evaluation. The study established there are several factors influencing strategic
planning these are the release of vision 2030, the new constitution, resources such as human
resources, government policies and donor funding. Also, the study looked at the challenges
encountered in the implementation of strategies and how they have been dealt with. The
challenges include: resources are not well distributed, lack of well formulated strategies, lack of
monitoring, evaluation and review directorate or unit, organizational structure, lack of proper
understanding and cohesion and lack of leadership and direction. Some of the mechanisms adopted
to deal with these challenges include: allocation and proper distribution of resources, change of top
leadership that saw the creation of directorates and appointment of registrars representing
different courts, engaging staff in the strategy implementation, adoption of modern and sound
human resource management frameworks; polices, rules, regulation, systems and practices that
attract and retain qualified, competent, talented and motivated staff of high integrity will be
prioritized and improved of communication channels. The study recommends that the management
should employ competent and qualified individuals at the management level. In addition they need
to form a unit of monitoring and evaluation and restructuring of the organization in order to ensure
efficiency and effective strategy implementation.