"Strategy is the direction and scope of an organization over the long-term which achieves advantage for the organization through its configuration of resources within a challenging environment, to ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. I've always felt that annual strategic planning is an opportunity to dream big and be open ...

If your environment doesn’t change much and the way you do business today is fundamentally the way you will be doing business in the next 5 – 10 years – DO NOT READ THIS! In a recent blog post, I ...

Let's be honest. Most strategic business plans fail. There is a plethora of writing on the subject of why. My list of reasons is quite long, but I'll save that for another time. Let's focus on just ...

On Thursday, April 25, 2019, the William & Mary Board of Visitors dedicated the sundial area in front of Swem as the “Mary-Cooke Branch Munford Plaza.” Mary Munford was the first woman appointed to ...

While nonprofit and for-profit corporations operate in similar ways, there are often subtle operational differences. One significant place they differ is strategic planning. Although both use the same ...

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 ...

Developing strategies for how a business will use its money, materials and people to accomplish its goals is part of starting and running a business. Within the strategic planning process, a ...

The new strategic planning initiative was announced as the school continues to reshape its campus. Voters in 2022 OK’ed a $41 ...

UAB’s Strategic Planning Council was launched in January 2022, and charged by President Ray Watts to refresh UAB’s 2018-2023 strategic plan, Forging the Future, to guide the institution’s continued ...

City leaders and Downtown Madison Inc. are launching a collaborative planning process to develop a new strategy for downtown ...