It’s hard to accomplish anything without a plan. Whether you’re coaching a football team, cooking Thanksgiving dinner, or running a small business, you need a strategic plan. A strategic plan looks at ...

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 ...

Strategic planning is misunderstood in most small and midsized CPA firms. There have been tons of books and articles published about the strategic planning process. Developing strategies is probably ...

Strategic planning is a commonly misunderstood concept in the business world. Entrepreneurs and business owners may think they have a strategic plan in place simply because they have goals and a ...

A business needs to have both a strategic plan and a budget. The strategic plan lays out the direction and goals of the business and guidelines for actions to achieve those goals, while the budget ...

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 ...

Take a moment and read these two words: strategic plan. Now close your eyes and picture one. If what comes up is a thick binder, gathering dust on a shelf next to other thick binders from five and ten ...

A strategic plan is a comprehensive roadmap that outlines our long-term vision, goals, and priorities, guiding decision-making and resource allocation to enhance academic excellence, research, student ...

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 ...

This past January, the Woods College staff and administration officially launched a strategic planning process for the Woods College, kicking off the year-long endeavor with a staff retreat at The ...