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The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Jo Ann Herold As a ...

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 ...

"Strategy is the direction and scope of an organization over the long-term which achieves advantage for the organization through its configuration of resources within a challenging environment, to ...

While nonprofit and for-profit corporations operate in similar ways, there are often subtle operational differences. One significant place they differ is strategic planning. Although both use the same ...

If a single insight could sum up the case for strategic planning in higher education, it would be the Stoic philosopher Seneca’s observation that, if you don’t know which port you’re sailing to, “no ...

If you wanted to get to the top of a mountain, my guess is you'd plan ahead. You'd make sure to look at the weather, pack the right supplies and wear the appropriate gear. It's the same concept when ...

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 ...

On a regular basis, a committee comprised of faculty, staff, students and community members develops a strategic vision that informs key decisions in the years to follow. The strategic planning ...

Like so many great people, Strategic Planning lived a full life. It touched many businesses in a positive way—but failed many, as well. It wasn’t perfect, but it made contributions to society. In the ...

T alk to most college leaders long enough, and they will eventually invoke their institutions’ strategic plans, sometimes as blueprints for specific improvements, other times as almost talismanic ...

Throughout North America, firefighters respond to a wide variety of emergencies that seem to expand regularly. Notwithstanding the increase in demand, we are always willing to step up in any time of ...