STRATEGIC PLANNING

Strategic Planning is a process that determines the future direction your firm will take, affecting everything your firm, your colleagues, and you will do for the next several years. It's a large investment in time, energy, and cost, and you want to be certain that investment is made wisely and provides tangible returns.

The Strategic Planning process can be an exciting, energizing opportunity for you and your colleagues to exercise your creativity, innovative abilities, entrepreneurial instincts and passion. You can use the process to build stronger connections amongst the partners, create a learning experience for everyone involved – including your all-important future leaders.

Your resulting Strategic Plan should be a living document that acts as a touchstone for your tactical business decisions, which anticipates changes in real-world conditions, that recognizes the certainty of difficulties to come and tells you how to reap learning from those experiences.

AMI's approach to Strategic Planning encompasses not just the creation of a Strategic Plan document, we also help you identify and generate the culture and support infrastructures – operations, people and processes – needed to advance your strategic objectives.

Our work and processes are always customized to meet your firm's unique needs. We'll listen to your challenges and design a process that can positively change your firm.

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"Leading the Strategic Culture" (PDF file). AMI founder, Lou Marines, explores some of the risks in Strategic Planning processes, and why a culture of innovation and learning is key to the successful implementation of new strategies.

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