Strategic Planning for a School District

Cambridge Strategic Services is the next generation of The Cambridge Group; a firm widely recognized nationally and internationally as the leading provider of strategic planning for school districts. Building on a 30 year legacy of superior performance and unremitting commitment to public education, Cambridge Strategic Services greatly expands the traditional offerings and expertise of The Cambridge Group.

We have the unique capability of assisting our clients from the very earliest stages of planning, to the development of a strategic organization, to the strategic design of curriculum programs and facilities conformed to student learning. No other firm can promise and deliver that holistic context. The trademarked Cambridge Strategic Performance System is an exclusive concept designed to create total, holistic systems in which all energies and resources are dedicated to action with strategic intent and within strategic context. This approach guarantees that your school district, as a community, can continuously create human systems to serve extraordinary purpose - the common good of all students.

Cambridge Strategic Performance System™

Our Strategic Performance System™ represents the culmination of over thirty-five years’ experience in Strategic Planning and organizational development for corporations and educational organizations throughout the world. The Strategic Performance System is based on our exclusive concept, and it is the only complete system of continuous creation, moving from idea to action to idea. And now it is supported by a comprehensive software package.

The principles and disciplines are from Bill Cook’s Strategic Planning for America’s Schools. The process, including the training, is accomplished in less than 12 months.

Program Planning and Project Planning

True to our name, our only business is STRATEGICS.® Nevertheless, we realize that Program Planning and Project Planning, while not Strategic Planning, are respected disciplines that are appropriate, and often a necessary means of moving initiatives to practical action. However, if not undertaken within a strategic context, they usually result in activities effectively unrelated to the driving purpose of the organization. Multiple programs and projects, without strategic context, become a patchwork of conflicting, competing exercises that dissipate resources and confuse the organization’s identity.

In recent years, Cambridge clients have strongly urged that we provide program and project planning in a strategic context to ensure that there is indeed a holistic system of action, all undergirded by the same strategic philosophy and all dedicated to, and adjudicated by, strategic intent.

In addition to the specialties described here, we will provide facilitation for unique projects and programs identified by the system that 1) create strategic intent; 2) expand strategic context; and/or 3) accelerate strategic action.

Affiliate Services

Cambridge is pleased to be affiliated with professional firms who understand and appreciate our philosophy of strategy and who are noted for exemplary performance.