Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Vibhas Ratanjee studies leadership and culture at Gallup On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered one of the most ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Early in my career, I worked with mid-market companies that believed growth was a matter of doing more — more hires, more campaigns, more spend, more tech. The logic was simple: If we could just ...

In periods of relative stability, traditional planning tools work well. You look back at what worked, adjust what did not and make a few educated bets about the year ahead. But when disruption ...

Through planning meetings and collaborative discussions, Northwestern Engineering leadership — including Dean Christopher Schuh, the school’s nine department faculty chairs, and senior administrative ...

Healthcare and school campuses serve as societal keystones, centers of learning, healing, and community. As such, they face unique security pressures, from cyberattacks that could compromise patient ...

NYU-Stern professor Pankaj Ghemawat discusses how companies can plan for an evolving world of multi-country international supply chains and cross-border information flows. In 1992, Canada, Mexico, and ...

In the dynamically changing healthcare landscape, innovation alone is not enough. Companies and scientists must form strategic alliances, especially in regions with complex regulatory environments.

In today’s fast-moving market, the most successful companies are rethinking growth — not as a solo act, but as a strategic collaboration. Growth in today’s business environment requires collaboration, ...