Resources

A Detailed Overview of Our Approach:

1. Our Process
2. Stakeholder Engagement
3. Support Options we offer after the kickoff

CINCINATTI ZOO

Illustrative Client Plan and Scorecard

Recommended Reading

The following articles, books, and monographs inform our own thinking about strategy and strategic planning.  

A Playbook for Strategy: The Five Essential Questions at the Heart of Any Winning Strategy

A 5-page article providing an overview of the book Playing to Win.

Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works

By A.G. Lafley & Roger L. Martin (Former Dean)

Understanding Michael Porter, The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy

By Joan Magretta 

The New Leader’s 100 Day Action Plan: How to Take Charge, Build Your Team, and Get Immediate Results

By George B. Bradt

Leading Change

By John P. Kotter

The One Page Strategic Plan offers a number of inherent benefits to non-profit organizations. 

  • The simplicity and clarity of the OGSP® tool works well with employees who may not have had prior strategic planning experience.

  • The speed and efficiency of developing an initial OGSP® keeps time and cost requirements to a minimum versus other alternatives. 

  • The intense “focus” built into OGSP® addresses the common tendency for non-profits to take on far more work than their resources can support.

Good to Great and the Social Sectors,  highlights the important difference in defining and achieving “greatness” in social sector entities versus for-profit businesses. This includes focus and choice making given the more diffuse power structure of non-profits, and the tendency to embrace “activity” versus measuring performance against defined success criteria.