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...
The outcomes from an organization's strategic planning process can be wide, varied and invariably far reaching within the organization. For some, the results of the process are to stay the current course but for others their strategy requires a more...
As a board member and senior manager of a nonprofit you are responsible for creating and participating in the development of your organization's strategic direction and implementing the change associated with delivering upon that strategy. While there are few ethical...
Tip 1: Develop specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-limited objectives that cover the time horizon of your strategic plan. For example, "Increase gross revenue from all sources by 27% by May 30th 2005". Tip 2: Produce a written plan. This...
What is a SWOT analysis? Many people see SWOT as synonymous with strategic planning. In fact, a SWOT analysis is only one of many tools that can be used in an organization's strategic planning process. SWOT is short for "Strengths,...
What Is A Strategic Blind Spot? A strategic blind spot is something that is known to those outside the organization but is not known to those within the organization and can be positive or negative in nature. What Is Groupthink?...
