Strategy planning software
Outline strategic goals, identify key metrics, and track progress
Unlock collaborative strategic planning with Mural. Outline goals, identify key metrics, and track progress with a platform built for enterprises.
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Why Mural for strategic planning & management
- Organize your ideas and give them structure with flexible frameworks, mind maps, diagrams, and more.
- Lead more productive strategic planning meetings with facilitation tools like timer, anonymous voting, and private mode.
- Ensure that everyone is engaged and all voices are heard, regardless of location or work preferences.
- Kickstart your process with one of our strategy or alignment templates.
- Never lose sight of your key ideas or progress in endless email or message threads.
S tart Strategic planning
Intuitive strategic planning tools that make visualizing, building, and sharing your strategic plan easy
Mural's strategy planning software features let you own the collaborative environment, keep participants on task, and transition quickly from presenting to creating content.
Create & publish custom templates
Save time and scale methods across your organization by publishing templates to your workspace.
Anonymous voting
Gain consensus and reach alignment quickly, either in real time or asynchronously.
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Customizable labels make it easy to find, organize, and categorize your work in a mural.
Asynchronous collaboration
Innovate and collaborate effectively together without booking time on calendars.
Private mode
Avoid groupthink and get authentic feedback by allowing collaborators to add content privately.
Export
Export as a download or embed the mural as an iframe into documentation and more.
Ready-to-use templates to share with your teams
Project north star
Project North Star is a tool designed to help teams align on a project's goals, roles, target audience, and other essential details.
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OKR planning
Objectives and key results (OKRs) is a goal-setting methodology used by teams and individuals to set challenging, ambitious goals with measurable results.
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SWOT analysis
Analyze strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats associated with your project.
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Roadmap
Understand your customers' experience at every stage and plan for future development.
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Roadmap: one quarter
Plan your quarter and keep all the information in one place
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Annual roadmap
Visualize your major projects and tasks for the year
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PI Planning
Plan and align with all Agile Release Train collaborators.
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Project planning
Begin a new project with a clear head
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Workshop planning
Focus on the context and purpose of your workshop to maximize effectiveness.
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2023 calendar
Use this template to plan your whole year for 2023
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Change plan
Coordinating change activities across the project life-cycle
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Project kickoff
Align on expectations for your project and get to know your teammates.
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Strategy blueprint
Use this template to define the components of a new or existing strategy. Build your strategy framework using Mural's free tools.
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How to get started with Strategic planning
Mural is a powerful digital workspace for visual collaboration that significantly enhances strategic planning processes for teams of all sizes. By providing an intuitive, interactive interface, Mural allows team members to brainstorm, map out ideas, and visualize complex strategies in real-time, regardless of their physical location.
This collaborative environment not only speeds up the decision-making process but also fosters a deeper level of creativity and engagement among participants.
How to use Mural as a strategic planning tool
Mural makes it easy to organize, collect feedback, refine your approach, and build a strategic plan through real-time and asynchronous collaboration in a shared visual space. To use Mural as a strategy planner, you should:
- Start with a blank canvas or with one of Mural's strategy, planning, or alignment templates.
- Each template includes facilitation features and tips to guide your team through each activity — learn more about Mural's Facilitation Superpowers™ features.
- Run an engaging real-time session or invite your team to share feedback asynchronously.
- Embed or export a visual representation of your strategic plan to share with anyone, inside or outside the Mural platform.
What are the benefits of using strategic planning software?
Strategic planning software offers a lot of benefits that streamline and enhance the planning process for businesses (and, most importantly, the people doing the planning). Here are some key advantages:
- Better collaboration: Facilitates real-time collaboration among team members, allowing for the sharing of ideas and feedback instantly, regardless of geographical locations.
- Increased efficiency: Automates and organizes planning tasks, reducing the time spent on manual data entry and analysis, which speeds up decision-making processes.
- Improved visibility: Provides a clear overview of strategic goals, progress, and outcomes, making it easier for managers to track advancements and align efforts across the organization.
- Scalability: Adapts to the needs of any organization, regardless of size or sector, and can scale as the business grows or as needs change over time.
