The development of a Strategic Plan is a process. While you and your team may work on a new strategic plan once every three years, an external facilitator works on them with clients all the time. They bring experience and detailed knowledge of this planning process to you, as well as tools that can make the work easier and more insightful. An external facilitator is also impartial and unbiased, helping you and your team to see issues and opportunities that you may not be recognizing. Finally, they can bring focus and keep the process moving. In the end, you have a new written Strategic Plan developed on time and within a budget. And that’s great. But, if you choose SCS, you will end up with more. We want to help you establish an ongoing planning capability in your organization, complete with measures with targets and routine plan reviews. We think Eisenhower said it best: “The plan is nothing; planning is everything.”