On July 1, 2025, we launch the Bowdoin College Museum of Art’s next strategic plan. In support of the museum’s ongoing growth and development, the staff engaged in a strategic planning process that ...

I've recently been thinking about how, in life and in business, some terms are too often merged into a single meaning, depriving us of important distinctions that can help us define concepts. Without ...

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 ...

The core of the 2025-2030 HR Strategic plan is informed by the shared values, principles, and ethics of our human resources team- cultivating a human-centered culture via R.I.S.E. HR! The acronym ...

Traditional, complex strategic planning doesn’t suit modern entrepreneurs. Instead, focus on a lean, agile and actionable strategy that you can start implementing in days, not quarters. Define where ...

CEOs are routinely told to “link their strategic plan to their budgets.” Yet over many years, I’ve observed an alarming disconnect between the two. Aligning strategy and budgets is touted as a ...

Alex Brueckmann is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of "The Strategy Legacy" and CEO of Brueckmann Strategy Consultants Ltd. For a while, strategy work followed a ritual: Once a year, an ...