Effective implementation of strategic plans is essential for any organization's success, but it's harder than it looks. A 2018 management research study concluded that only 20 to 30 percent of ...

Strategic implementation is a process that puts plans and strategies into action to reach desired goals. The strategic plan itself is a written document that details the steps and processes needed to ...

With so many risks and roadblocks to successful implementation of strategy, it seems bizarre that a major cause of failure is a process which the organization itself creates, and maintains at ...

Strategic Planning Co-Chairs Provost Donna Heiland and Vice President for Finance and Administration Cathleen Kenny led the strategic planning process over the balance of the 2024–2025 academic year ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm a global philanthropy advisor and author of Delusional Altruism. Inaction has a price. Hesitating to put a new strategic plan ...

Digital transformation efforts are rapidly accelerating in the public sector. Spurred in part by the pandemic — and now, as state and local governments pivot to meet rising constituent expectations — ...

Approval and sponsorship for an information security strategy is only the beginning. Implementation of the strategy is when risk is truly mitigated, and applying these five principles is vital to ...

Among the key challenges hindering AI adoption, security and compliance concerns rank the highest at 37%, underscoring the critical need for organizations to safeguard sensitive data while adhering to ...

Building on Strength represents the culmination of a yearlong planning process commenced in fall 2015 and completed in fall 2016. The process was overseen by several planning groups and supported by ...

Dean Smith held the first facilitated two-day leadership retreat. The goal of this retreat was to identify areas of emphasis needed to operationalize the current strategic plan. Working from the ...