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 ...

At the October 9th Board of Education Meeting, GIPS Superintendent Matt Fisher presented the vision for the district’s next strategic plan. The plan, shared as an information item with the Board, is ...

Did you know that the typical five-year strategic planning forecasts perform about as well as dart-throwing chimpanzees? Cognitive science and behavioral economics scholars have conducted research on ...

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 ...

If your strategic plan for 2020 was scrapped in Q1, you’re in good company. Beyond the new best practice of adding contingency plans for a global pandemic, this year offers a rare opportunity to ...

Earlier this month, the select board held its annual retreat to discuss strategic goals for the upcoming fiscal year, based on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Of course, in today’s fluid world, most “strategic plans” are really “contingency plans.” Put the first draft of ...