If you’re heading out on a family road trip, I’m sure you’re like me and make sure your car is roadworthy, the gas tank is full, and your luggage is securely packed. Most importantly, you know where ...

Strategic planning is the process of identifying where you want your company to be in the future and then charting steps to get there. However, you can't get where you want to go unless you have the ...

Strong strategic planning is critical to the success of every organization. It is the process by which strategy is translated into concrete short-term actions. It can also be a vehicle for deciding ...

Strategic management planning tools, or simply s_trategic management tools_, include such instruments as a SWOT analysis and a PESTEL analysis. Businesses use strategic management planning tools to ...

In the last two months, we’ve tackled the first seven rules for strategic planning success, covering the steps in the development of the strategic plan. As important as the first seven steps are, the ...

When I first started participating in strategic planning sessions with other organizations, I wanted to pretend I was the caterer delivering the food or the janitor lingering around the edges of ...

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 ...

The following is an excerpt of a blog post reprinted with permission from AchieveIt.By nature, planning takes on a top-down approach, as the senior-most executives gather together to discuss the ...