For more than 25 years, Altarum Institute has been designing, conducting and evaluating strategic planning at the organizational, community, state, and federal levels. Based on our experience, we know how to bring to bear for our clients the key factors necessary for any successful strategic planning process. We use our systems experience in all of our strategic planning, ensuring that plans are comprehensive and take into account all the environmental factors that influence an organization. Our strategic plans are also strengths-based and rely on a participatory model. To ensure success, our work for clients involves significant knowledge sharing and incorporates ongoing support and technical assistance for implementation.
Tapping our wealth of expertise, as well as best practices and tools from other organizations, Altarum has created Compass: A Guide to Creating Collective Action that Lasts. Compass defines an approach to participatory strategic planning with a systems focus. Compass maps out guiding principles, powerful questions, and useful tools and resources from many sources, all of which practitioners can use for their planning needs.