The following is reprinted with permission from strategicplanningMD.Strategic planning is a process by which we determine the answers to two questions and then craft a plan to achieve desires results.

Strategies are actions a business takes to compete more aggressively, to acquire additional customers and to operate the company more profitably. A successful strategic plan provides the information ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Strategic planning is an organization’s process of defining its strategy or direction and making decisions on allocating its resources to ...

Strategic planning is not just a functional exercise. It means the difference between being a struggling nonprofit and an innovative, cause-driven organization changing the world. Creating a culture ...

Nonprofit organizations are a stunningly diverse bunch, with assets ranging from hundreds of dollars to billions, service areas as varied as neighborhoods and the entire planet, and missions that ...

Throughout North America, firefighters respond to a wide variety of emergencies that seem to expand regularly. Notwithstanding the increase in demand, we are always willing to step up in any time of ...

Operational headcount planning isn’t holding up in an age of digital transformation and AI integration. The leaves haven’t turned quite yet, and your coffee may not taste like pumpkin spice, but one ...

Strategic plans have been subject to a host of critique. They are ridiculed for their dust-gathering character. They are assumed inappropriate for strategy in a complex and uncertain world. And, along ...

Many studies have concluded that the vast majority of strategic planning fails, up to 67 percent actually. In part, it’s because the traditional way of thinking about strategic planning is totally ...

The New School launched its strategic planning process in spring 2022 to bring our campus community—students, staff, and faculty—together in conversation about our university: where we are, where we ...