Innovation – Voorhees Group

CEOs, Consultants, and Strategic Planning: The Case for Pre-Assessment

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[dropcap] I’ve facilitated strategic planning processes that happily turn institutions around. I’ve also been party to lukewarm processes that don’t produce anything strategic. Hard-hitting and meaningful plans are always more desirable than plans filled with platitudes and unmeasurable promises. The difference is always in leadership.[/dropcap] The most skilled of facilitators can take a college only […]

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Barriers to Innovation?

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[dropcap]I hear a lot about innovation in my work with colleges and systems of higher education. Ambitions to innovate run high in many pockets of organizations. Yes, while many individuals inside higher education organizations see innovation as a desirable, most see it as out of reach or at least difficult to implement in their current

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Getting to The Dance: Innovation and Strategic Planning

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[dropcap]Colleges from time to time tell me that they’d like to develop a new strategic plan, but that instead of an old fashioned “traditional” plan, they need an “innovative” plan. What advice would I have about how strategic planning and innovation could dance together? My enthusiasm always ticks up when I hear colleges aspire to

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