To respond to the complexities that appear in business growth, you must scale your business. The first step to scaling your business is to start with a focus on your strategy with an emphasis on ...

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 ...

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. A successful organization understands its strengths and weaknesses, sets clear goals and objectives and achieves them through action. A ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Successful companies go through a variety of business cycles. Unfortunately, many in leadership positions don’t plan for those stages and aren’t properly capitalized when a transition occurs. “Without ...

If “raise more money” is on your roadmap, here’s how to translate it from a placeholder into a funded strategy.

This is a revised column from one that Dr. Chaman Jain, the editor of the Journal of Business Forecasting (JBF), recently asked me to write. It discussed the relationship between strategic and ...

These past months, I’ve had conversations with a handful of presidents of colleges and universities across the diversity of American higher education who have each reported that their strategic ...