While nonprofit and for-profit corporations operate in similar ways, there are often subtle operational differences. One significant place they differ is strategic planning. Although both use the same ...

Strategic planning is a shared responsibility across the SUNY Cortland community. The Institutional Planning and Assessment Committee (IPAC) coordinates the planning process by: Providing ...

Strategic planning is never easy, and it has gotten hugely harder with the Covid-19 pandemic. Baseline forecasts of revenue and costs are tough, and who knows whether a second wave or a vaccine will ...

As we begin the New Year, we tend to be positive and focus on the future of the year ahead. Some do this in both their personal life and professional life. The best way an organization can address the ...

More than a decade ago I was in a leadership workshop with about a dozen deans and a few department chairs when one of them raised the subject of strategic planning. Fairly new to administration at ...

Everything I wanted to know about strategic planning I learned not in the workplace but through volunteering with the American Chemical Society. I have been fortunate to witness the evolution of the ...

It is time for the SUNY Cortland community to update our strategic plan. The strategic plan for campus identifies institution-wide priorities, objectives, measures, and activities that address our ...

The role of business-IT innovation is to ensure that an organization is effective in identifying, responding to and pursuing uses of IT that are consistent with strategy. Business-IT innovation, ...

If a single insight could sum up the case for strategic planning in higher education, it would be the Stoic philosopher Seneca’s observation that, if you don’t know which port you’re sailing to, “no ...

A business needs to have both a strategic plan and a budget. The strategic plan lays out the direction and goals of the business and guidelines for actions to achieve those goals, while the budget ...