Setting operational goals fosters alignment, accountability and measurable progress toward business objectives.

The plan should articulate the goals and objectives, along with the 3-5 core strategies needed to drive each imperative identified in the strategic direction-setting process.

Entering into the strategic planning process can seem daunting, but if it is done and managed well it can be surprisingly straightforward. In addition, it serves as the road map for all business ...

The strategic planning process creates strategic roadmaps that make your plan actionable and track its execution enterprise-wide. With the right tools, you can compare scenarios, ...

When you do strategic planning, part of the process is making a conscious choice about who you want to be as a business. Toyota decided it would not try to compete against luxury brands like BMW ...

As consultants Jara Dean-Coffey and Jill Casey noted in their recent paper “Strategy for Now,” published at The Foundation ...

In addition, throughout the planning process, the workflow administrator should have almost nothing else on his or her plate but strategic planning. It’s not a project that should be tacked on ...

Here’s a 2015 New Year’s resolution: consider strategic planning as a process, not an event. Practice linking short-term goals to long-term strategies by managing and executing on them ...

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 ...

Soon after his appointment, he launched a yearlong strategic-planning process, telling all who would listen that the university’s first priority should be the development of a sound plan of action.