Living Into Your Strategic Plan: A Guide to Implementation That Gets Results

By Jacquelyn Hadley, Laura Lanzerotti, and Adam Nathan

In the Bridgespan Group's work developing strategic plans with clients, we've often heard a collective sigh of relief when the planning process is over. It's understandable. Strategic planning is hard work, and it's tempting to think that finishing the written plan is equivalent to crossing the finish line. But, of course, it isn't. Writing a strategic plan is only the first step towards achieving impact year after year. The next step is implementation, and often, this is where organizations stumble.

This six-step guide can help you and your organization create a path toward implementation. It provides strategies and tools nonprofits can use to implement their strategic plans in an effort to achieve impact year after year.