Principals can establish a set of core priorities to ensure that their initiatives are aligned with long-term goals.

It has been said that if you are not planning to succeed, you’re planning to fail. A lack of planning will lead to the demise of an organization, especially the fire service. Strategic planning is one ...

Your strategic plan will guide your organisation in achieving its vision, mission and goals, and will help you answer five key questions about your organisation’s purpose and activities. A strategic ...

Some research highlights that 48 percent of leaders spend less than one day per month discussing strategy. Therefore, it's hardly surprising that nearly half of all organizations– fall short of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For decades, hospitals and health systems relied heavily on external consultants to guide strategic decision-making. With limited internal resources and access to fragmented data, these organizations ...