Our Approach to Strategic Planning for Non-Profits & Businesses

When you are faced with challenging business quandaries, Ken Hubbell and Associates offers a broad suite of services to asses and retool operations, restructure goals, and help your organization operate in a demanding environment.

KHA's strategic planning for organizations can help you develop a new compass and a flexible roadmap. This roadmap includes a detailed strategic plan for your future, a plan that includes shared goals and vision for your establishment; unified viewpoints on how to address critical management issues; specific and quantifiable goals; an effective communications strategy; and a comprehensive action-plan to make certain that the strategic direction and plan for your organization becomes part of its daily operation.

Because each client is unique, we customize our strategic planning to meet the needs of each individual organization. We approach each planning experience believing that we have a lot to learn about every new project and its interrelated systems and that we will uncover the best ideas by working closely with our clients and exploring uncertainties and opportunities together. Most strategic thinking and planning process would include some of the following steps:

• Discovery and Exploration: Depending on the size and structure of our client's organization, we hold focus meetings with selected staff and directors to create a shared vision of the organization's future and the driving questions the group is wrestling with. We map the key variables in your operations and identify the health of the current system and industry environment. We employ imaginative scenario thinking sessions to tease out different futures and their implications for your business.
• Direction and Alignment: The purpose of this phase of the process is to generate a shift in alignment that leads to a new consensus on issues and openings. Here we analyze the forces that will affect goals and vision. We examine the business model and differentiating factors that support an organization's competitive advantage. We help the group challenge current assumptions and identify the critical assets upon which it shapes its future. The strategic planning team produces a plan, which includes the organization's strategic direction, at least four potential scenarios, and outlines a map of goals.
• Priorities, Milestones, Accountability and Potential Learning: The goals of this phase are to ensure long-term sustainability of the process and strategies, identify possible partners and funding sources, develop work plans with defined responsibilities and timelines, ensure accountability, and design an approach to measure and evaluate progress.

The entire process includes individual dialogues, group discussions, and mini- retreats that incorporate visual mapping and facilitation. Each organization requires a special approach, so we tailor our strategic process to each of our clients. We would be happy to discuss the future with you. Please contact us at kenhubbell@kenhubell.com for more information.

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