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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I enable organizations to simplify so they can focus on valuable work. Oct 06, 2025, 06:02pm EDT Nov 03, 2025, 04:22pm EST When a ...

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 ...

When preparing for 2025 and all the unknowns the future inevitably holds, a thorough strategic plan is critical to driving meaningful outcomes for any business. Effective strategic plans reflect on ...

Strategic planning and the resultant strategic planning blueprints are essential to every organisation, association, entity or business outfit. The tragedy however is that strategic planning more ...

Of all the things common to executive leadership, the objective, process and value of strategic planning are among the most difficult to comprehend. There are many reasons for this, but perhaps the ...

Strategic planning has forever been a core responsibility of the CEO. During the rising tide economy of the 2010s, it was a relatively straightforward process. But when COVID-19 hit in 2019, every ...

This is a revised column from one that Dr. Chaman Jain, the editor of the Journal of Business Forecasting (JBF), recently asked me to write. It discussed the relationship between strategic and ...

Two years after McKinney ISD Board of Trustees approval, the district's strategic plan is now firmly integrated in ...