The hardest part of strategic planning is often related to generating new ideas. A handy tool to help your team start thinking about what your customers value about your organisation is the Value Discipline Tool. (Yes, Not for Profits have customers too!) This simple...
‘Tis the season to be planning… or budgeting… or … wandering …Summer holidays already seem a year ago and the planning and budgeting season is no longer something that’s coming ‘next year’. It’s that time of the year where we typically all try to keep business as...
It’s a jungle out there. The Australian Not-for-Profit sector is crowded, with over 600,000 NFPs in operation. That’s 1 for every 38 Australians. We have more NFPs than we do emus.Many consider the sector to be at the point of over-saturation, the not-for-profit model...
“Process Improvement is something we always look forward to.” – Said no one. Ever. This activity involves intense attention to detail, serious time-consumption and a healthy dose of staff push-back. The acknowledged cost savings reaped from Process...
By now you probably know that I believe short term planning has killed good strategic thinking. Boards are failing and should do more to revive good strategic thinking. If boards are truly to add strategic value then they need to bring something different than...
