Despite the mega churches on TV, almost every research points to the fact that local churches in America are closing their doors at an alarming rate. With the many changes in our world today, coupled with the challenges faced by the local church, many do question the relevancy of the local church in a changing world. This book, Strategic planning: Management within the local church, is intended to be an encouragement and a resource to the Body of...

All too often, managers give insufficient thought to preparing for their strategic planning meetings. So they arrive at their meetings without the needed information to make necessary strategic decisions. Or they discover, far too late, that their planning team members are unfamiliar with the strategic planning process. Or, because they haven't used a pre-planning survey, they suffer from a terribly slow start to their strategy discussions. Also because...

Major corporations in the technology, pharmaceutical, and auto manufacturing industries focus on their revenue and profit; marketing strategies; and creative ways to develop, manufacture, and market new products. Organizations are expanding and improving existing businesses to create tomorrow's markets. To that point, many companies are creating strategic-planning teams dedicated to developing those plans needed to maintain their edge and profitability...

Strategic planning deals with long-term goals and objectives. Performance management focusing on the performance of an organization, department, process, or employee-is what makes strategic planning work. Neither can be done without the other, but both must be adapted to the organization. This volume is designed as a reference for those involved in the day to-day challenge of performance management and measurement. Government managers will find ideas...

The person responsible for facilitating a strategic planning meeting faces a multi-dimensional challenge. Certainly, he or she must keep the planning team on track so that their resultant product is a viable, implementable strategic plan. The facilitator must also assure that a room full of highly opinionated individuals will set aside their day-to-day tasks to focus on their organization's most critical, long-term issues. And often, the facilitator...

The world changes continuously and rapidly. It's foolhardy to believe that strategies should not do so as well. Nonprofit leaders already know this, but traditional strategic planning has locked them into a process that's divorced from today's reality. That's why plans sit on the shelf and why smart executives are always seeking workarounds in between planning periods. The Nonprofit Strategy Revolution offers a nimble and powerful alternative. In...

Strategic planning sounds business-as-usual dull, while innovation conjures up images of corporate vision and risk-taking. The truth is, the two must be brought together for companies to excel in dynamic markets. The Power of Strategy Innovation presents a five-phase Discovery Process for staging, aligning, exploring, creating, and mapping the paths between analytical, numbers-oriented, day-to-day planning and market-centric, discovery-driven innovation...

"Our most revered business icons of the last few decades are the bold risk takers, such as Richard Branson, Elon Musk, and Steve Jobs. Yet in today's stock market-driven economy, companies are playing it safe, with too many leaders focused on short-term gains, rather than value creation. The result is a static business culture that generates forgettable results--even as the world demands big solutions. So how do we get back in the risk-taking game?...

"Why is profitable growth so hard to achieve and sustain? Most executives manage their companies as if the solution to that problem lies in the external environment-find an attractive market, formulate the right strategy, win new customers. But when Bain & Company's Chris Zook and James Allen, authors of the bestselling Profit from the Core, researched this question, they found that 90 percent of the challenges to growth are internal: increasing distance...

Strategic Planning & Integration: Learn About Integration Marketing and Why This is the Best Way to Increase Your Profits for Your Online Business The internet is as real a world as the offline world. The web hosts billions of real people who are looking for real answers from real entrepreneurs that have their act together. Integration marketing unifies experts by creating a situation where superior products and services come together in marketing...