Organizations that set benchmarks or serve as examples of how to do things effectively and efficiently are called "best-practice" organizations. The techniques they use -- the "best practices" -- have ...

For entrepreneurs, choosing opportunities that will best suit a business's strengths is part of the strategic planning process. Strategic planning results in some guiding ideas that serve to unify the ...

Crafting effective vision and mission statements is one of an organization's most important undertakings. These statements provide brand identity for internal audiences, external stakeholders and ...

Vision-setting as an organizational practice sometimes gets a bad rap, perhaps because too often, it’s done badly. As an advocate for long-term strategic visioning, I would argue that those who ...

Maintaining the status quo is an organizational death sentence. To prevent this, an organizational vision that communicates the leaders’ strategic intent and points to the direction in which the ...

So how many of you out there have created a mission statement for your department? Looking around the room it appears as though almost all of you have. Good job! Now what does it say? Here's one of my ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. When the Walt Disney Co. was created in 1923, it had a simple vision. The company wanted to be the “world’s leading producers and ...