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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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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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As a general rule, associations are risk averse organizations, instinctively conservative in every way, especially with their financial resources. To push back against these buffeting forces, associations need to redesign resource allocation for greater strategic focus, flexibility and trust. The Problem. Additional Thoughts.

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