No strategy survives the realities of execution untouched. No matter how sound the basis for a strategy appears or how much it is vetted, everything discussed about the strategy during the strategic ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. I've always felt that annual strategic planning is an opportunity to dream big and be open ...

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 ...

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 ...

As we begin the New Year, we tend to be positive and focus on the future of the year ahead. Some do this in both their personal life and professional life. The best way an organization can address the ...

More than a decade ago I was in a leadership workshop with about a dozen deans and a few department chairs when one of them raised the subject of strategic planning. Fairly new to administration at ...

Dear Members of the Northwestern Community, As Northwestern continues to make globalization a University priority, I am pleased to share with you specific efforts underway to accelerate that work. To ...

In fall 2021, under the leadership of the Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and with guidance from the Strategic Planning Core Team, a seventeen-member, cross-campus ...

It’s time for some truth-telling. The nonprofit sector has created a culture in which strategic work is seen as a necessary evil, a process to endure, something to suffer through. Executives often ...

The Department of Environmental Studies engaged in an approximately 18-month process in order to agree on the strategic planning document here. Pre-planning for ENVS strategic planning, including work ...