Human Services News

The Fieldstone Alliance:

A new book by award-winning author and thought leader David La Piana offers nonprofits a fast track to strategic planning. The Nonprofit Strategy Revolution: Real-Time Strategic Planning in a Rapid-Response World is the result of four years of foundation-funded research by La Piana Associates, Inc. on effective strategy formation.

The Nonprofit Strategy Revolution was written to help nonprofits reliably and efficiently produce powerful strategies—patterns of behavior that will enhance their organization’s success. The ultimate goal is to help nonprofits increase their capacity to be more strategic in thought and action on a day-to-day basis.

"Strategic planning should make the organization more 'strategic'—that is, better able to meet the challenges of a dynamic environment," explains La Piana. "Experts stress that the most important outcome of strategic planning is to instill strategic thinking in the organization which leads to strategic action by management. Ironically, true strategy formation is not a role traditional strategic planning plays very often.”