Creating Your Strategic Plan: A Workbook for Public and Nonprofit Organizations, Third Edition

Preface to the Third Edition

STRATEGIC PLANNING IS a way of life for the majority of public and nonprofit organizations. We are pleased to have played a role in bringing about that change through our publications and through the more than 500 major strategic planning processes we have helped facilitate since the publication of the first edition of this workbook in 1996 as a companion to the revised edition of Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations (Bryson, 1995). This third edition of the workbook accompanies the fourth edition of Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations (Bryson, 2011). The workbook has a new name—Creating Your Strategic Plan (rather than Creating and Implementing Your Strategic Plan)—because ...