Long-term strategic business planning is necessary for company growth and success, explains Entrepreneur magazine. Business plans provide companies with the tools to track growth, establish a budget ...

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 ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. A successful organization understands its strengths and weaknesses, sets clear goals and objectives and achieves them through action. A ...

Your mission statement is a clear description of why your business exists -- what it produces, whom it serves, how it serves them and what it stands for. By itself, however, the statement is just ...

Note: This article is the second in a series about how firms can successfully reassess and reimagine their business models. Read the first article here. Failure to plan is planning for failure. That ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I enable organizations to simplify so they can focus on valuable work. You know the annual drill: you and your teams gather data, ...

Why do so many strategic plans by government agencies and jurisdictions fail, ending up on the shelf as expensive paperweights? One reason is that, too often, they’re developed by a narrow ...

Turn your strategic plan into a specific operational plan with these steps and examples. An annual plan is an operational plan that indicates specific goals and objectives for a particular program or ...

UAB’s new strategic plan for 2024-2028, Forging Ahead, outlines our mission, vision, values, peers, foundations and pillars, as well as outlines institutional goals, strategies to achieve them and ...

In 2022, ESF initiated a comprehensive strategic planning initiative to evaluate and update the College’s mission and goals. This document serves as ESF’s roadmap for all operations over the next five ...

The Harvard Business School (HBS) IT three-year strategic plan (FY24–FY26) is organized around HBS IT’s five strategic priorities, as well as the IT mission and vision, which together support the HBS ...

Drexel is executing a strategic plan to effectively – and intentionally – address shifts in higher education and broader challenges facing society Six strategic imperatives are central to Drexel 2030 ...