Strategic planning involves considering potential internal and external impacts on the organization and then mapping out an approach to deal with these impacts. From a marketing standpoint, ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Jo Ann Herold As a ...

Sales, inventory and operations planning (SIOP) is process used for monitoring and upgrading a company's operating plan. It pulls all departments together to ensure that potential problems can be ...

Building a sales plan can help transform a slow-growth business into a high-growth one by providing a clear roadmap, align resources, and drive focused actions. Face it, finding new business is hard, ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Strategic planning is an organization’s process of defining its strategy or direction and making decisions on allocating its resources to ...

Sales pipeline management involves generating, tracking and communicating with prospects to convert leads into paying ...

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 ...

Nikki Little is the senior VP at Franco and an integrated communications professional with more than 17 years of experience. My first inclination when starting this article was to write that as we ...

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 ...

This is a revised column from one that Dr. Chaman Jain, the editor of the Journal of Business Forecasting (JBF), recently asked me to write. It discussed the relationship between strategic and ...

Or should you let it go and start over with a fresh process? Stalled strategic planning gets you nowhere fast. This issue's dilemma asks about your deepest secrets—about what goes on in those planning ...