Business and Strategic Planning: 5th Edition 2025

Do you know where your charity is going, and how to get there?

Good, well-structured planning is essential for every organisation if you want to achieve your goals. Planning for the future will keep your organisation efficient and adaptable, help you manage change, and enable you to deal better with tomorrow’s unforeseeable challenges.

This comprehensive guide will help you develop a robust business strategy, a business plan, a plan for change, or any other strategic plan you need to guide your organisation where it needs to go.

What does it cover?

This guide features advice from one of the sector’s leading strategic thinkers and is packed with tools and case studies that show you how to put it into practice. The new edition includes sections on:

• Approaches to strategic thinking
• The planning process, who to involve and how to lead people through it
• Analysing your organisation
• Creating a business model and working with the numbers
• Getting the plan on paper and making it a reality

What they said about the previous edition

‘Here’s a really easy to read and understand book that will help you create a great strategy and plan.’

Paul Farmer, Chief Executive Officer, Age UK

 

‘A valuable place to start the business planning process for anybody in a small organisation trying to adopt a more strategic approach. Down-to-earth, practical and full of useful exercises.’

Peter Maple, Course Director, South Bank University