Strategic planning for a small business requires a quick grasp of what makes the business inherently special—and clear insight about what must change in order to grow.
We help small organizations build strategic plans that connect clear goals down to gritty must-dos, using frameworks that can grow and evolve with you, so you never have to deal with the pain and paralysis that comes from having no plan—or being in endless planning mode.
Small businesses in particular are at risk of following an off-the-shelf strategic planning process that equates success with adherence to a particular format. Many frameworks will work for a strategic plan (OKRs, MBOs, Traction, E-Myth, etc.), but these tools are all garbage-in/garbage-out. The end result is only good if the strategy and the plan are both solid.
A good strategic plan is half about the strategy, half about the plan.
We bring cross-sector experience from organizations at every scale—from startups to enterprise—which means we know what systems, habits, and structures a small business needs now that will still work when it’s three times the size. Strategic planning for SMBs isn’t about scaling down a big-company process. It’s about building a foundation that won’t need to be torn up when growth arrives.
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Over the course of 2021 and 2022, The Next Us worked with one of the largest and best-known investment firms in the world on a series of inter-related efforts, including vision, strategic planning, positioning and messaging, and values.