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. I enable organizations to simplify so they can focus on valuable work. You know the annual drill: you and your teams gather data, ...

Strategic planning refers to what a business wants to do, while strategic management refers to how it's going to do it, explains management strategist Deron King of business consulting firm WIPFLI. A ...

As a business owner, you need a well-thought out business plan to help you run your business. Without such a plan, you run the risk of running around in ways that have little to do with generating ...

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 ...

Strategic planning is a critical business practice for positioning an organization for success, aligning leaders to a common plan, and guiding management decisions. Most companies conduct some form of ...

The following is an excerpt of a blog post reprinted with permission from AchieveIt.By nature, planning takes on a top-down approach, as the senior-most executives gather together to discuss the ...