Strategic Planning

From hyping up teams to finding the right data, ever more challenging tasks demand new approaches. Here are four tips.

Anchors based on past projects can improve scheduling accuracy and on-time project completion.

Apply these four lessons to successfully put employees at the heart of strategic planning and benefit from their input.

This issue of MIT SMR focuses on sustainability, customer and employee engagement, and strategic planning.

Only by creating an equitable environment and supporting diverse populations in navigating it can we sustain diversity.

Executives must confront a strategic planning blind spot: their assumptions about the future business context.

Minorities offered a leadership role during a crisis must weigh the opportunity against the increased risk of failure.

Organizations can apply biology-inspired adaptive design principles to become more resilient against cyberattacks.

Jobs in the post-pandemic era, the effects of relaxed hybrid rules, and the real causes of the supply chain crisis.

Strategists weigh in on what relaxed rules around physical presence in the office mean for productivity and performance.

Strategy experts weigh in on what COVID-19 means for business strategy.

Making your organization fit for data, enhancing value with nontraditional stakeholders, and supporting working parents.

Great strategy addresses investor and consumer interests and also recognizes the value of nontraditional stakeholders.

For competitive advantage, embrace digital marketing, a Google-sponsored Forrester survey advises.

Creating consistently great business strategies demands systematic constructive debate and logical rigor.

Companies have more options than they realize when choosing a strategy for responding to a changing environment.

Innovating remotely, changing strategically, and piloting AI projects.

When environments are complex and dynamic, strategy is about adaptability.

Navigating chaos with sensemaking, elevating cybersecurity strategically, and disrupting yourself.

Developing truly innovative strategy requires workshopping your own company’s disruption.