For integrators, a business plan with four to six strategic bets across the functional areas strike an appropriate balance.

For many executives, the idea of formulating and implementing a strategic plan is intimidating, but if you carve out the time to ask these tough questions and answer them truthfully, I think you ...

A contingency is a potential negative event that may occur in the future, such as a natural disaster, fraudulent activity, or ...

Too many organizations are failing because they fail to plan. Your mission, vision, values, and objectives need to be clearly articulated and lived.

Fairly new to administration at the time, I had never participated in strategic planning myself, but almost everyone else there had. And their reviews of that experience were decidedly mixed.

Objective 1: Work with graduate programs to implement admissions practices that employ holistic approaches to minimize bias in the admissions process. Objective 2: Leverage student retention data and ...

Strategic planning is always connected to the larger vision and goals your business has. So, when you do it well, a natural, positive side effect is that everybody becomes more aligned.

The Strategic Planning Council began with research including a review of Forging the Future and an environmental scan of higher education and healthcare. Committees made up of subject matter experts ...