Sir Winston Churchill said, “However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” While this quote is a little tongue in cheek, the unfortunate reality is that companies and ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Jo Ann Herold As 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 ...

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, ...

Think a business plan is just paperwork? Think again. It’s essential for making a success of a venture. 70% of businesses that survive beyond 5 years follow a strategic plan. Aspiring entrepreneurs ...

Healthcare reform legislation has increased demands concerning quality, cost and efficiency of hospitals and health systems. One way to manage these expectations is to create a strategic plan that ...

While critical to a hospital’s success, strong strategic plans can be difficult to develop. Some common mistakes hospitals make when developing a strategic plan include failing to examine the mission ...

I’ve seen this firsthand working with organizations across industries. What used to be a solid year-long strategy window has shrunk to quarters, or even weeks. AI speeds up everything. It’s not just ...

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 ...