Increasingly I’ve become sensitized to the critical importance of good leadership within an organization. (Maeda’s RISD blog has been an eye-opener.) Meanwhile I’ve also been more and more involved in what one might call strategic planning. No, I’m not about to get an MBA, but here for my own reference are a few tools which I hope I’ll be able to use well:

Peter Drucker’s Five Questions for An Organization:

• What is our mission?
• Who is our customer?
• What does the customer value?
• What are our results?
• What is our plan?

SWOT Analysis, a strategic planning tool used to evaluate, for an organization, its:

• Strengths (to use)
• Weaknesses (to stop)
• Opportunities (to exploit)
• Threats (to defend against)

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