Bridgehouse GAPP Wheel: Strategy & Business Planning
This segment explores how effectively your board leads, shapes and reviews organisational strategy, ensuring alignment with purpose and long-term goals.
What you’ll get:
An independent review of your organisation’s strategic framework, with a focus on how well the board owns, understands and uses the strategy to guide decision-making.
We’ll assess the clarity of your mission and vision, how regularly the strategy is reviewed and how meaningfully stakeholders are engaged in shaping it.
The outcome is a set of targeted recommendations to help boards use strategy as a living tool rather than a static document.
Best for:
- Organisations undergoing a strategy refresh or entering a new planning cycle
- Boards wanting to embed strategy more firmly into governance practices
- Leadership teams seeking to align planning, delivery and board oversight
- Organisations responding to external change or preparing for growth
We’ll assess:
- The alignment of your strategy to your vision and mission
- How regularly the strategy is reviewed and updated
- How stakeholders (staff, service users, funders, partners) are consulted or engaged during strategy development
- Whether the board has approved and actively owns the current strategic plan
- Whether the board uses strategy to steer decisions and prioritise actions
What we need from you
- Your current strategy
- Your current strategic or business plan to deliver this years element of the strategy
- A copy of your vision and mission statements
- Board papers or minutes showing recent strategy discussions or reviews
- Any stakeholder engagement summaries, plans or communications strategies
- An outline of how strategy is reported on (e.g. KPIs, milestones, board updates)
Outcome
Boards completing this segment will gain clearer oversight of how strategy is governed, how well it connects to board-level decision-making, and what changes might strengthen its relevance, ownership and impact.
Get in touch
We would be pleased to answer any queries or have an informal chat to discuss your possible governance needs.
