Clinging to old-school planning methods could kill your competitive edge this next year. It’s September, which means strategic planning season is here. Most companies spend weeks (if not months) ...

Nonprofit leaders, midlevel managers, and frontline staff sometimes view strategic planning as one more task heaped onto near-impossible workloads. After all, developing a strategic plan — by ...

As we begin the New Year, we tend to be positive and focus on the future of the year ahead. Some do this in both their personal life and professional life. The best way an organization can address the ...

The 2018 strategic planning process was an enormous effort—one that sought to meaningfully engage all voices from the College of Arts and Sciences community and to thoughtfully consider and synthesize ...

Bjarne Tellmann: The overarching goal of having a strategy is to articulate how the department will add value to the enterprise. The process by which the plan is developed is the most disciplined and ...

Note: This article is the second in a series about how firms can successfully reassess and reimagine their business models. Read the first article here. Failure to plan is planning for failure. That ...

To respond to the complexities that appear in business growth, you must scale your business. The first step to scaling your business is to start with a focus on your strategy with an emphasis on ...

Dear Faculty, Staff and Students: Beginning this semester we will embark on an ambitious strategic planning process for Smith College. The project will involve all of us — faculty, staff, and students ...

As we approach the successful completion of “Greatness Through Difference“ strategic plan (2018-2025) and celebrate all we have achieved, it is time to turn our attention to the next 10 years.