Strategic Planning

Having the right strategy to achieve key objectives is crucial to any organization’s success. Yet knowing where the board’s role ends and management’s begins can sometimes be tricky. To learn more about how boards are becoming involved in the strategic planning process, please refer to the articles in this section.

Trustee Trend: Boards Take More Active Role in Strategic Planning

Boards are increasingly becoming more active in the strategic planning process. This Great Boards publication includes information on the board’s role in planning, ideas for energizing board strategic planning retreats, and examples of how boards have used strategic planning to achieve positive results.

(Great Boards, Summer 2005)

Boards, Management Have Key – But Separate – Roles in Strategic Planning

Given the importance of the strategic planning process to the performance of the hospital, many boards are becoming more actively involved in shaping and approving the strategic plan. This Great Boards article proposes a model designed to help delineate which elements of the strategic planning process should fall to the board and which should be the responsibility of hospital management.

(Great Boards, Summer 2005)