Creating a Strategy That Speaks to Everyone

Arapahoe County in Colorado has built a strategic planning process that gets results by broadening stakeholder involvement.

It's a scenario many organizations face—employees leave a strategy planning session feeling energized about what they developed, only to discover the strategy has become "shelf-ware" a year later. Sound familiar?

Numerous studies have identified that anywhere between 60 to 90 percent of organizations fail to implement their strategic plans. According to