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 ...

Have a question about foundations? Ask the authors. They might answer it in the next installment of their monthly column on running effective foundations. As more and more foundations seek to increase ...

It has been said that if you are not planning to succeed, you’re planning to fail. A lack of planning will lead to the demise of an organization, especially the fire service. Strategic planning is one ...

Many organizations still view strategic planning as a linear process, one with a defined start and end. First, you plan. Then you execute. Right? Once your annual plan is decidedly complete, you move ...

My first article in this series discusses how to craft excellent strategic planning and align your team. In this second article, we delve into ways to get your team more involved and therefore, more ...

The calendar has officially rolled into the fourth quarter of 2022, which means many RIAs will be conducting strategic planning sessions in the coming weeks and months as they look forward to 2023.

Every advancement of knowledge builds on the foundations of yesterday’s discoveries. In 2010, the UMass Lowell community set audacious goals. Together we leapt, with the determination that we would ...

There has never been a time when carefully planning out the future of your firm has been so important, says Matt Rampe of Rosenberg Associates, as he offers a roadmap for building the firm you want.

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 ...

The Colorado Digital Service (CDS) team is leading the implementation of the state’s Digital Government Strategic Plan, initially focusing on three projects to improve digital services. According to ...