Strategic Planning for Business and Government

Project Innovations has helped many organizations and communities confront uncertain futures with our unique strategic planning process. Our processes provide leaders a safe environment for Leaving Comfortopia to explore what is on the organization's horizon and to set a plan in place for a sustainable future.

Our methods may seem counterintuitive, but to quote Fyodor Dostoevsky, a great Russian novelist and thinker: "If everything on earth was rational, nothing would ever change."


Call to Action

In the next decade, many organizations will face a future with only one certainty: sustained economic decline. Developing a strategic plan with Project Innovations offers you an opportunity to address the impact of this decline on your stakeholders. But also, and perhaps more importantly, the planning process is an opportunity to create a Call to Action. Although a Call to Action is most often associated with marketing, we use it to describe the emotional motivation of a community or a school district or a company to implement its strategic plan.

A Call to Action will not be heeded in the face of strong disbelief. Conquering disbelief is a psychological challenge and is rooted in strong emotional and mental paradigms. As most leaders know, it's not always possible to conquer disbelief with facts, good planning, and up front communication. Our strategic planning process, which is based on our proprietary methodology, Unrational Leadership, was specifically designed for overcoming psychological resistance to change because it cannot be tackled using rational tools alone.

Map to Unrational Leadership

Five Principles
of Unrational Leadership

The five elements of our unrational leadership method, which are interwoven into our strategic planning process are as follows:

  • Start all problem solving by taking personal responsibility. Our facilitation efforts always ask stakeholders, "What is your role in solving this problem?"
  • Aim at increasing energy, not just efficiency. Strategic planning is not only a matter of dollars and cents; it's a challenge in generating motivation to change paradigms.
  • Confront and partner with the unconscious. All significant change starts with challenging and altering hidden and unexamined beliefs. For all organizations, this is the key to conquering disbelief.
  • Creativity drives change. Boring, standard facilitation processes that rely on identifying and prioritizing issues will only scratch the surface of your psychological challenge. Our facilitation processes stimulate the four corners of the personality, including moral judgment, practical problem solving, emotional connection (especially love), and defining vision.
  • Look two generations behind and two generations ahead. Our facilitation process will tap into the deep roots of affection and respect within your organization and will ask stakeholders to stretch their vision far beyond the ten-year planning horizon.