Strategic planning involves considering potential internal and external impacts on the organization and then mapping out an approach to deal with these impacts. From a marketing standpoint, ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Strategic planning is an organization’s process of defining its strategy or direction and making decisions on allocating its resources to ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Jo Ann Herold As a ...

Sales, inventory and operations planning (SIOP) is process used for monitoring and upgrading a company's operating plan. It pulls all departments together to ensure that potential problems can be ...

Sales pipeline management involves generating, tracking and communicating with prospects to convert leads into paying ...

Nikki Little is the senior VP at Franco and an integrated communications professional with more than 17 years of experience. My first inclination when starting this article was to write that as we ...

It’s no secret that businesses should have an exit strategy. But what is an exit strategy, and why is it so important? According to Investopedia, an exit strategy is a plan for selling or disposing of ...

This is a revised column from one that Dr. Chaman Jain, the editor of the Journal of Business Forecasting (JBF), recently asked me to write. It discussed the relationship between strategic and ...