Who Benefits from Developing a Strategic Plan?

A variety of organizational structures benefit from planning their strategy:

• Incorporated companies benefit from a strategic plan to help them focus on profitable growth.
• Non-profits benefit from a strategic plan to help them achieve their community impact objectives.
• Education institutions benefit from a strategic plan to increase impact of program offerings.
• Government institutions benefit from a strategic plan to ensure effective use of public resources.
• Healthcare companies benefit from a strategic plan to focus on clinical and service excellence.

Incorporated Companies

Strategy might be built around or lead to any or all of the following: new products; redefinition of key customer groups or market segments; differentiation of your brand; new core competencies; revenue growth via various approaches, including acquisitions, grants, and endowments; divestitures; new partnerships and alliances; and new employee or volunteer relationships.

Strategy might be directed toward becoming a preferred supplier, local supplier in each of your major customers’ or partners’ markets, low-cost producer, market innovator, or provider of a high-end or customized product or service. It might also be directed toward meeting a community or public need.

Non-Profit Organizations

Strategy might be built around or lead to any or all of the following: bringing value to stakeholders, enhancing community impact, improving service delivery, ensuring better outcomes, creating a culture of innovation, exploring opportunities to commercialize or expand reach, enabling partnerships, maintaining financial strength, ensuring research is translated to practice or creating awareness within community groups.

Education Institutions

Strategy might be built around or lead to any or all of the following: addition or termination of educational programs and services; services to new, changing, and special student populations; redirection of resources; modifications in instructional design; use of technology; changes in testing or adoption of standards; differentiation of your image or brand; new core competencies; geographic challenges; grants and endowments; research priorities; new partnerships and alliances; and faculty, staff, or volunteer relationships.

Strategy might be directed toward becoming a low-cost provider or a market innovator. It might also be directed toward meeting a community or public need.

Government

Strategy might be built around or lead to any or all of the following: enhanced public health and safety, meeting human and social community needs, ensuring economic vibrancy and employment, providing education and learning opportunities, cultivating the arts and vitality in the community, protecting natural resources, or improving government performance and effective use of public resources.

It can also focus on accountability measures such as increasing public confidence in service delivery, decision making, internal management and modernization of systems and processes.

Health-Care

Strategy might be built around or lead to any or all of the following: new health care services; redefinition of key patient and other customer groups or market segments; differentiation of your brand; new core competencies; revenue growth via various approaches, including acquisitions, grants, and endowments; divestitures; new partnerships and alliances; and new staff or volunteer relationships. Strategy might be directed toward becoming a preferred provider, a center for clinical and service excellence, a research leader, a low-cost provider, a market innovator, a provider of a high-end or customized service, or an integrated service provider. It might also be directed toward meeting a community or
public health care need.

Common Questions About Strategic Planning with Transition Designs

How Long Does the Process Take?

This process takes about six weeks for most organizations. Some clients prefer a workshop format, where all of their planning takes place in one day. Other prefer that Transition Designs complete their entire

What Are the Logistics?

We have developed a process-oriented structure where we meet once per week in an online format over Zoom. During this meeting, we review materials and training for a specific topic that we are focus on that week. In-between meetings, business leaders fill out templates from the training that week. These answers then get refined and filtered until they culminate in a strategic plan. Transition Designs is available to answer questions and support your organization along the way.

This strategic planning process is so effective because we partner with executives to complete the plan. The business executive brings the business knowledge, and Transition Designs provides the training and tools for strategic planning. This approach leverages the subject matter expertise of both parties and results in a high quality deliverable with a relatively quick turnaround time.

How Much Does It Cost?

The cost for the training, templates and planning materials is $5700. Our process oriented structure results in a greater value for our clients than had they engaged the services of a consulting team to complete the plan on their behalf.

The strategic planning process is also something that, after being taught once, can be executed year after year, maximizing your one-time investment and benefiting your organization year after year.