Before developing strategic objectives and planning for their implementation, a business must know if those reflect the marketplace reality and if it can afford to execute them. A SWOT analysis ...

The projects and programs that businesses pursue often vary greatly from one company to another, even among businesses that operate in the same industry. The projects businesses choose to pursue are ...

In today's fast-paced business world, strategic planning emerges as an essential tool for the success and survival of companies. The ability to anticipate, adapt and direct resources toward specific ...

Cognitive science and behavioral economics scholars have conducted research on people who are the most skilled forecasters among us. Did you know that the typical five-year strategic planning forecast ...

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 ...