Sentences with phrase «strategic planning for the years»

In October 1998, The Buffalo and Erie County Public Library in the Third Millennium was released to the public as the B&ECPL's proposed strategic plan for the years 1999 through 2003.

Our findings reveal several useful insights which could provide food for thought when it comes to strategic planning for the years ahead.

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I have had a personal business coach for over 6 years, and in January we hired a business coach to help us with strategic planning and to work with our management team.

Releasing a report responding to Ceres — a group made up of institutional investors which has for years been pushing resource companies to disclose their carbon bubble risks — Exxon vice-president of corporate strategic planning William Colton said, «All of ExxonMobil's current hydrocarbon reserves will be needed, along with substantial future industry investments, to address global energy needs.»

One of the common problems McFarland sees is the tendency for company CEOs to do a strategic planning session once a year, write up a report, and then, essentially, forget about it.

At Columbia Business School, Andrew Asnes helped develop a successful strategic marketing plan for Paul Taylor's American Modern Dance — where he had launched his career as a performer 25 years earlier.

At the start of the year it launched a new «Strategic plan» to focus on ultra-premium brands pitched at billionaires to make up for slumping Chinese sales.

He also agreed to attend the company's first - ever strategic - planning session later that year, in mid-September, when 10 of the 70 Magellan's employees would journey 40 miles north for an off - site meeting in the wine country around Zaca Lake.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Our strategic plan for the next five years is to deploy a CAGR [compound annual growth rate] on balance sheet at about 4 % to 5 %.

Forward - looking statements may include, among others, statements concerning our projected adjusted income (loss) from operations outlook for 2018, on both a consolidated and segment basis; projected total revenue growth and global medical customer growth, each over year end 2017; projected growth beyond 2018; projected medical care and operating expense ratios and medical cost trends; our projected consolidated adjusted tax rate; future financial or operating performance, including our ability to deliver personalized and innovative solutions for our customers and clients; future growth, business strategy, strategic or operational initiatives; economic, regulatory or competitive environments, particularly with respect to the pace and extent of change in these areas; financing or capital deployment plans and amounts available for future deployment; our prospects for growth in the coming years; the proposed merger (the «Merger») with Express Scripts Holding Company («Express Scripts») and other statements regarding Cigna's future beliefs, expectations, plans, intentions, financial condition or performance.

Among some of the first changes: the implementation of a more rigorous business reporting, monitoring, and tracking structure; development of a strategic business plan for the coming 2016 year; the introduction a renovated compensation structure for our sales team; and creation of a bonus plan for all non-sales employees so that everyone participates in the success of the company.

Major factors considered in setting goals for each fiscal year are business results from the most recently completed fiscal year, segment - level strategic plans, macroeconomic factors, competitive performance results and goals, conditions or goals specific to a particular business segment and strategic initiatives.

And while Caira hasn't made any specific decisions for changes to the menu or the company's operations as a whole, he plans to unveil a new strategic plan before the end of the year.

The Ontario Real Estate Association's five - year strategic plan, which includes beefing up the image of Realtors, creating strong government lobbying efforts and working as an advocate for homeowners, was revealed recently in a livestreamed event.

In 2015, Bastien helped update the firm's five - year strategic plan and assumed responsibility for Firm Planning in addition to leading the Finance division.

The flashpoint for Neuberger's decidedly rare foray into dissenting solicitation appears to center on the board's rather intractable approach to the Company's strategic planning, particularly as applied to the firm's vaguely framed trajectory in the event 77 year old founder, president, CEO and COO Arthur Zafiropoulo withdraws from one or more key roles.

Director of Industry Development Kenya Kondo has over ten years of experience in international marketing and strategic planning focused on initiatives for Canadian based interests in a number of countries in the Middle East, Africa, and South East Asia.

Strategic plans can be developed for as little as one year in the future and up to five to ten years.

Most of their board members also participate in GFI's biannual strategic meetings, where many of these issues are discussed.72 GFI has also told us that they reevaluate their strategic plan twice a year and they do so in a manner that allows for significant input from non-leadership stakeholders.

Our multi-year strategic planning process is much further along than typical for this time of year, and we are optimistic and confident in our opportunities going forward.

For two years, the World Board has worked based on a GA mandate intensively together with stakeholders on the development of a new strategic plan.

Myself and many others were pleased to see that food localisation was widely seen as an obvious and necessary pathway forward, with strategic land use planning — urban and peri-urban agriculture, community gardens, edible streetscapes and so on — identified as an urgent priority for all local and state governments in the coming years.

Most recently, Regina is tasked with implementing the three - year strategic plan for FRN and can not wait to talk to all of YOU about how you can support FRN's goals.

Carondelet has been seeking additional land for its athletic teams for over a year as this was identified as a critical need and, therefore, became a top priority in the school's strategic plan.

My fellow Commissioners and I will be working closely with staff to update the District's strategic plan for the next 5 years.

That's why, starting in June 2014, Mass Audubon completed a one - year, in - depth strategic planning process at the statewide level, the results of which will help guide all of our wildlife sanctuaries for the coming five years.

The Village Board voted last week to pay SmithBucklin Consulting Services $ 8,250 to facilitate a performance management program and help officials develop a municipal strategic plan for the next three to five years.

«We've been discussing this merger for the last year as part of our strategic plan to provide better services and work to cross-train our line staff to create more work efficiency,» said Scott Anderson, director of finance and general services.

The Human Milk Banking Association of North America (HMBANA) is undertaking a three - year strategic planning initiative to build capacity for safe, equitable sourcing and distribution of donor human

• Establishes a four year future direction • Aligns the organization with a strategic direction • Incorporates resident needs into future planning • Drives innovation as part of the organizational culture • Strengthens and identifies elements of organizational culture through values • Develops preliminary approaches to infrastructure and capital project needs • Creates groundwork for a long - term master plan

The proposals for the major road network respond to the Rees Jeffreys Road Fund study last year, which highlighted the disparity between the funding and planning of Britain's motorways — the strategic road network — and local authority A roads.

The new housing plan will set out a programme of work for the next two years regarding affordable housing, including the creation of a strategic housing indicator and an affordable housing indicator.

«I congratulate the Economic and Social Research Council for 50 years of high - quality, high - valued research and very much welcome its new Strategic Plan to ensure this continues for the long term.»

Raufnomics, coined by Aregbesola's associates, was launched last year as a shorthand for his profitable use of strategic planning and an innovative economic model to transform the lives of the people of Osun through mass - based and people - centered programmes and projects, especially in education, health care, infrastructural development, youth employment, and social welfare.

Executives of the opposition New Patriotic Party on Tuesday refused to show up for the launch of the Electoral Commission's five - year strategic plan, even though they were invited.

The next month, the agency hired 23 - year - old Andrew Moelis, a University of Pennsylvania graduate, for another new position, strategic planning associate, at a salary of $ 75,000 a year.

Tabled the hiring of CannonDesign for strategic planning services, after board members expressed concerns about hiring the architectural firm to provide 10 - year enrollment projections.

Since moving to the Hudson Valley in 2004, Jennifer worked for eight years as Deputy Director of Planning for Ulster County and, in 2012, established her consulting practice, Hone Strategic, LLC.

Strategic Thinkers Network (STRANEK), a research organisation, has endorsed plans to give the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to a concessionaire for 25 years saying the move by the government is timely.

A deal struck in 2015 with the then chancellor George Osborne paved the way for the region to take control of power over transport, strategic planning and skills and receive # 900m over 30 years.

Arena, the CUNY spokesman, said in an emailed statement that «CUNY is currently working on a new Master Plan and Strategic Plan for the next few years, which will include the University's goals and strategies as well as plans to support them.

Each of the ten regions presented an update on their strategic plans to Governor Cuomo and the Governor announced Round III of the CFA process including new initiatives for this year.

Technical universities are required to have education departments under the government's five - year strategic plan for Technical and Vocational Education Training...

Joseph Kofi Adda, Sanitation and Water Resources Minister, has disclosed that Government will in the coming days develop a three - year strategic plan for the water and sanitation sector.

«As a member of the postdoctoral association at Johns Hopkins, one of the benefits I got was the ability to sit in on faculty senate meetings and hear about strategic plans for the coming years,» she says.

He says the institute is planning to publish in late 2010 its next strategic five - year plan for the genomics field.

The impetus for the new program, called «Training for a New Interdisciplinary Research Workforce,» came from a strategic plan (the Roadmap) drawn up by NIH Director Elias Zerhouni after his arrival in Bethesda 2 years ago.

Many U.S. fusion scientists are blasting a report that seeks to map out a 10 - year strategic plan for their field, calling it «flawed,» «unsatisfactory,» and the product of a rushed process rife with potential conflicts of interest.

As associate director of science, she laid the groundwork for a five - year strategic plan that set out a vision for the museum's scientific research.