No strategy survives the realities of execution untouched. No matter how sound the basis for a strategy appears or how much it is vetted, everything discussed about the strategy during the strategic ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dev is the CEO of Jump, the strategy firm for future-focused leaders. Corporate planning season is upon us. With only about a ...

Note: This article is the second in a series about how firms can successfully reassess and reimagine their business models. Read the first article here. Failure to plan is planning for failure. That ...

Strategy has long been the subject of scholarly study and policy analysis. Historians and social scientists alike have written widely about strategic thought, process, and practice. Scholars continue ...

Traditional, complex strategic planning doesn’t suit modern entrepreneurs. Instead, focus on a lean, agile and actionable strategy that you can start implementing in days, not quarters. Define where ...

The traditional top-down model of strategy is obsolete – not because leaders became less capable, but because the environment became fundamentally less predictable. In an age defined by ambiguity, ...

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Certainly, strategic plans are important to academic institutions. Colleges and universities invest a tremendous amount of time and effort (holding many meetings with various constituent groups on and ...

Getting inventories right is hard—but why? In this age of advanced technology, ERP systems, and AI, one would expect companies to leverage these tools as a competitive advantage or, at the very least, ...

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