Business and Strategic Planning

Do you know where your charity is going, and how to get there? Good, well-structured planning is essential for every organisation if you want to achieve your goals. Planning for the future will keep your organisation efficient and adaptable, help you manage change, and enable you to deal better with tomorrow's unforeseeable challenges. This comprehensive guide will help you develop a robust strategy, a business plan, a programme for change, to guide your organisation where it needs to go. This guide features advice from one of the sector's leading strategic thinkers and is packed with tools and case studies that show you how to put it into practice. The new edition includes sections on: *Approaches to strategic thinking *The planning process, who to involve and how to lead people through it *Analysing your organisation *Creating a business model and working with the numbers *Getting the plan on paper and making it a reality If you have a stake in the future of your organisation, this book will help guide the way. It's essential reading for chief executives, trustees and managers, but will also be useful for anyone interested in how to plan ahead to be more effective and efficient