Sir Winston Churchill said, “However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” While this quote is a little tongue in cheek, the unfortunate reality is that companies and ...

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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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I enable organizations to simplify so they can focus on valuable work. You know the annual drill: you and your teams gather data, ...

Healthcare reform legislation has increased demands concerning quality, cost and efficiency of hospitals and health systems. One way to manage these expectations is to create a strategic plan that ...

As another year winds down, leaders often fall into one of two costly traps: prematurely shifting focus to next year’s goals or charging through December on frenzied autopilot. Both are missed ...

I’ve seen this firsthand working with organizations across industries. What used to be a solid year-long strategy window has shrunk to quarters, or even weeks. AI speeds up everything. It’s not just ...

While critical to a hospital’s success, strong strategic plans can be difficult to develop. Some common mistakes hospitals make when developing a strategic plan include failing to examine the mission ...

As federal employees, the strategic planning process offers us a unique opportunity to shape the future of our agencies and the services we provide to the public. With the requirements under the ...