Strategic planning is useful under any of the following circumstances:
What makes a plan “strategic” is that it takes into consideration factors outside your organization that influence the context in which you work. We help you gather the information you need to support your decisions about future directions for your agency (market research and interviews of key stakeholders both inside and outside the organization) and use that information to inform your agency’s vision, mission and future activities.
A strategic plan takes into consideration your history, where your organization sits in the market, and translates your broadest aims into a road map describing how you will get there, with specific, measurable milestones to help you assess your progress along the way.
A strategic plan is a holistic look at where your organization sits today, and where you want it to be 3-5 years from now, given what you know about the world in which you operate. It should never be a "door stop." It should be a living document that guides you in realizing your mission.
Our consulting style emphasizes process. Involving key decision makers in the planning process builds ownership of the outcomes, and board members become energized as a result. The planning process helps build a learning organization, where practitioners and policy setters are bound together by a deep connection to the mission.