As the old saying goes, failing to plan is planning to fail. Good leaders know that forethought and preparation are necessary to succeed in this sense. Yet, it's not unusual for founders, executives ...

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 ...

Diana Khramina is the Chief of Staff at Gorgias, a series C startup with 280+ employees, and previously a McKinsey consultant. Are you embarking on a strategic planning journey within your startup?

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 ...

When preparing for 2025 and all the unknowns the future inevitably holds, a thorough strategic plan is critical to driving meaningful outcomes for any business. Effective strategic plans reflect on ...

Overplanning can kill adaptability. Learn how to escape the strategy trap by treating plans as hypotheses and building systems that evolve with change ...

Coming up with a good plan can address the most important issues science organizations face. “Our executives have started their annual strategic planning sessions. This involves sitting in a room with ...

That isn’t by coincidence. Product management backgrounds are increasingly essential at the top of the corporate ladder today, particularly when it comes to facilitating organizational strategic ...

I recently helped a large industrial manufacturing company with its strategic planning process. With so much uncertainty surrounding autonomous vehicles, 5G, robotics, global trade, and the oil ...

Every business book stresses the need for companies to do strategic planning. Every motivational speaker emphasizes the need to set goals to be successful in business and life. Yet few contactors have ...

Every advancement of knowledge builds on the foundations of yesterday’s discoveries. In 2010, the UMass Lowell community set audacious goals. Together we leapt, with the determination that we would ...