Strategy and Planning


Recent Strategy and Planning Articles

Beyond Rolodex

By Alessandra Bianchi |  Aug 1, 1993

New on-line service links users with more than 250,000 professors and academics worldwide.  Read more

Who's on Board?

By Michael P. Cronin |  Jun 1, 1993

Chart showing the backgrounds of outside board members.  Read more

Effective Boards

By Ellyn E. Spragins |  Jun 1, 1993

Reasons for establishing a board of advisers and tips on adviser compensation.  Read more

Planning Your Exit

By Bruce G. Posner |  Jun 1, 1993

Management considerations that will help prepare your company for sale.  Read more

Diary of a Small-Company Owner

By Anita F. Brattina |  Jun 1, 1993

Part two of the journal of a company owner, who, with the help of an outside board, struggles to grow her company.  Read more

Calling All Techies

By Alessandra Bianchi |  May 1, 1993

A new company serves as an incubator, venture network and consulting firm for entrepreneurs and inventors.  Read more

The Diary of a Small-Company Owner

By Anita F. Brattina |  May 1, 1993

First of a two-part series detailing an entrepreneur's use of an outside board as she struggles to grow her company.  Read more

The Best Advice May Still Be Free

By Alessandra Bianchi |  Feb 1, 1993

Small Business Development Centers' free advice proves helpful to clients.  Read more

Where Great Ideas Come From

By Leslie Brokaw |  Jan 1, 1993

Tapping the world outside your company for the ideas that will keep you smart.  Read more

The Secrets of Great Planning

By Leslie Brokaw |  Oct 1, 1992

How one company uses strategic planning to set long-term goals and short-term agendas.  Read more

Are You Too Busy to Be Smart?

By Christopher Caggiano |  May 1, 1992

FaxPoll response to running a business while keeping on top of new information ideas.  Read more

Strategic Planning

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Feb 1, 1992

Resources for strategically planning your company's future.  Read more

How'd You Think of That?

By Susan Greco |  Nov 1, 1991

Chart illustrating where CEO's get their ideas.  Read more

Planning Tools

By Bruce G. Posner |  Nov 1, 1991

Resources for helping write successful business plans.  Read more

Consultants

By Jayne Pearl |  Oct 1, 1991

Guide to hiring an office equipment consultant.  Read more

Can Carolyn Blakeslee Have It All?

By Leslie Brokaw |  Sep 1, 1991

Profile of a female entrepreneur growing a company while meeting personal needs.  Read more

Hard-Time Start-Ups

By George Gendron |  May 1, 1991

Inc.'s editor-in-chief offers a list of some of today's best-known companies that started in the Great Depression.  Read more

The Small-Business Man's Blues

By George Gendron |  May 1, 1991

Song lyrics from 'The Small-Business Man's Blues,' by Steve Brennan.  Read more

Confessions of a Director

By Ellyn E. Spragins |  Apr 1, 1991

Advice on making the most of your board of directors.  Read more

Worker on board

By Inc. staff |  Mar 1, 1991

An auto service shop includes a hands-on shop manager on its board of directors.  Read more

Strategic Planning

By Inc. staff |  Feb 1, 1991

Chart of companies that have downsized in the past four years.  Read more

On-the-road education

By Inc. staff |  Jan 1, 1991

Arranging meetings with admired CEOs.  Read more

Worry, Worry, Worry

By Inc. staff |  Dec 1, 1990

Chart showing percentages of the biggest business concerns.  Read more

Towards a New Architecture

By John Katzman |  Dec 1, 1990

One CEO recommends reading Towards a New Architecture to anyone building a business.  Read more

Inside Job

By Inc. staff |  Oct 1, 1990

Chart depicting the percentage of Inc. 500 companies with outsiders on their boards.  Read more