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CEOs of mid-sized companies, especially those ranging from $10 million to $100 million+ in revenue, face immense pressure to maintain relevance and achieve sustainable growth. Navigating shifting ...

Did you know that the typical five-year strategic planning forecasts perform about as well as dart-throwing chimpanzees? Cognitive science and behavioral economics scholars have conducted research on ...

We’re in the thick of strategic planning season—a time of big binders, slide decks, and multi-day meetings designed to map out the future. But when the unexpected hits, how much of that work actually ...

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 ...

Wyatt Wells throws the baby out with the bath water in “Why ‘Strategic Plans’ Are Rarely Strategic—or Effective” (op-ed, Oct. 26). While he cites anecdotes to support his thesis, he neglects to ...

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 ...

Successful companies go through a variety of business cycles. Unfortunately, many in leadership positions don’t plan for those stages and aren’t properly capitalized when a transition occurs. “Without ...

The role of business-IT innovation is to ensure that an organization is effective in identifying, responding to and pursuing uses of IT that are consistent with strategy. Business-IT innovation, ...

The most successful RIAs are confidently starting their new year with a strategic plan that honors their values and purpose. The latest research validates that this best practice correlates with ...

Optimized planning at scale made possible: Strategic Grid Planner enables utilities to generate and validate system plans by evaluating thousands of technically feasible and economically optimized ...