With the strategic planning season well and truly underway it’s time to blow the dust off last year’s plan and think about all the things that didn’t get achieved. Let’s not be too cynical, though. While, to some, the planning process may be a simple check box for...
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...
When it comes to Not for Profit sustainability, Boards, leaders, researchers, consultants and think tanks alike are often engaged in a limited conversation that starts and ends with funding models. This closed loop thinking is made so by planning practices that ignore...