Remove strategic-planning

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The era of strategic planning is over

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During the more than twenty years I have worked in and with associations, it is my guess that organizations throughout our community have committed millions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of hours of staff and voluntary leader time to generate tens of thousands of pages of strategic plans and related documents.

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Read Jeff De Cagna’s latest article on business model innovation

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Jeff De Cagna’s latest article on business model innovation, “Designing Association Business Models for the Network Age,” is now available for download. Jeff De Cagna’s latest article on business model innovation, “Designing Association Business Models for the Network Age,” is now available for download.

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How Technology is Transforming Strategy

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I find it remarkable that it is February 2013, and I am still reading magazine articles advising associations to create strategic plans every five or six years, and encouraging leaders to review those plans just once a year. As I wrote in Associations Unorthodox , the era of strategic planning is over.

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Associations Unorthodox Shift #2: Crowdsource strategy

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For many decades, having a strategic plan has been the sine qua non of association management practice. It is a potent dictum of association orthodoxy, and yet, in reality, strategic planning today is a largely pro forma exercise designed to extend the seductive yet perilous illusion of organizational control.

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Associations Unorthodox Shift #3:Eliminate budgets

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For example, while budgets should reflect clear investments in stated strategic priorities, frequently they are built only to maintain existing activities, including pet projects supported by influential constituencies, and to reinforce the illusion of centralized control. Additional Thoughts.

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