How We Partner With You:

Strategic planning takes an organization (and its team) out of the day-to-day, reactive mode and into looking ahead at where it needs to be to fulfill its mission in the future while being aware of challenges it will face, and how best overcome those challenges that lead to enterprise flourishing.  VeraCruz leads its clients through the strategic planning process with the end product not being just another thick plan collecting dust, but a data-driven, ‘living’ plan crafted to the organizational realities that leads to client execution.  The process is not a top-down exercise without buy-in or insights from internal and external stakeholders, but is designed to be an interactive process that stimulates frank, objective dialogue among participants and culminates in work product that enables measuring outcomes, determining reasons for the results, and adjusting mindsets and measures while keeping an organizational “true north”.  

Typical Strategic Planning services include:

• Facilitating board retreats to set high-level organizational clarity, direction, and priorities with actionable follow-up steps, for director and executive roles, and responsibilities.

• Creating an in-depth planning process that is grounded in mapping enterprise processes and a forward-looking financial model for scenario testing and creation of a detailed, measurable, and executable work plans for each functional area, program-service, facility or initiative.

• Developing a framework that provides decision-makers the useable tools to explore new services, products, programs, expansions, consolidations, or mergers.

• Evaluating various strategic enterprise options that include financial, timeline and operational considerations and decisions.

• Drafting strategic plans.