Introduction As part of the way we manage and govern our organization, we often talk about setting objectives or goals. However, the setting of those objectives or goals is not always as easy as it initially appears. Picking objectives that...
Introduction Many organizations develop strategic plans and spend the time to outline the tasks, responsibilities, and timelines required to implement the plan, yet they are still unable to make a meaningful difference in the organization's achievements. This article is written...
Introduction The process of strategic planning has become one of uniformity. The strategic plans of one organization look very much like that of every other organization, except for a changed title page. Compounding this uniformity are the so-called consulting experts...
Introduction Traditional models of strategic planning that attempt to predict the environmental landscape and beliefs about the value of core competencies are being challenged by the easy flow and assimilation of information from organization to employee and from one organization...
Organizational capacity has been defined by the Panel on Accountability and Governance in the Voluntary Sector as "the human and financial resources, technology, skills, knowledge and understanding required to permit organizations to do their work and fulfill what is expected...
Strategic fatigue is something that can happen to any organization at any time. You know that your organization has fallen into strategic fatigue when: Committees designed to implement specific actions (that haven't been realized) aren't meeting as much or not...
Most organizations view strategic planning as the development of a single strategy to which they allocate incremental resources. The concern with a single strategy is that if it's wrong it could cripple the organization through the misallocation of limited resources....
Many organizations view strategic planning for their organization as a linear process that is the responsibility of the Board of Directors and therefore is determined by the Board and communicated to the staff to implement. According to the report, "Building...
With the speed of change in the non-profit environment the movement of senior people between organizations is increasing and as such an organization can find itself with an interim executive director. In the past this meant having the interim executive...
One of the greatest objections organizations face in developing strategy is that it ends up being a great process that produces a report that sits on the shelf. In other words there is no execution of the strategy. As Louis...
