Business and Strategic Planning

Do you know where your charity is going, and how to get there? Good, well-structured planning is essential for every organisation if you want to achieve your goals. Planning for the future will keep your organisation efficient and adaptable, help you manage change, and enable you to deal better with tomorrow’s unforeseeable challenges.

This comprehensive guide will help you develop a robust strategy, a business plan, a programme for change, to guide your organisation where it needs to go.

This guide features advice from one of the sector’s leading strategic thinkers and is packed with tools and case studies that show you how to put it into practice. The new edition includes sections on: * Approaches to strategic thinking * The planning process, who to involve and how to lead people through it * Analysing your organisation * Creating a business model and working with the numbers * Getting the plan on paper and making it a reality

If you have a stake in the future of your organisation, this book will help guide the way. It’s essential reading for chief executives, trustees and managers, but will also be useful for anyone interested in how to plan ahead to be more effective and efficient

Author Biography

Alan Lawrie is a well-known and highly respected independent consultant and trainer. Before moving into consultancy he worked in management roles in the voluntary sector and the public sector. His specialises in strategy, business planning, commissioning and organisational development. He has written several books for DSC including the bestselling Business and Strategic Planning now in its 4th edition and never out of print since it was first published in 1988, Collaborative Working, Creating and Managing New Projects and Developing Your Organisation.