Rewriting your strategic plan every few years may be costing you a lot more than you think!
Posted by Rick Knowlan on Apr 18, 2011
How often are you rewriting your strategic plan, and why? In my first decade of guiding the creation of strategic plans, I was often called to help clients re-do their plans every 3 or 4 years. At the time, neither I nor my clients were aware of any reason why organizing strategic plans in one way would be any better than another. In the absence of a reason to do otherwise, these plans were organized around strategic themes chosen by the client teams. By the time we renewed these strategies a few years later, the themes around which the original strategy was organized had often lost their...
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