As the 21st century unfolds, new methods of planning must be developed to respond to the patterns, forces and dynamics of a changing world. Beginning in the early 1980s, MG&A began to develop new methods and techniques for building frameworks. These frameworks are the foundation for strategic planning and are derived from the firm’s understanding of the relationship between the forces driving global change and the future of states, cities and regions.

Strategy Development
Positioning in the Global Network
Assembling the Information Platform
Creating Regional Templates
Consensus Building
Organizing a Leadership Matrix
Identifying Opportunities and Threats
Shaping Communications

For more than 20 years, MG&A has provided strategic planning and design services to communities and institutions seeking to develop new directions and effective strategies. The firm pioneered a new approach by introducing the concept of developing strategic frameworks as a foundation for planning and scenario building. The Strategic Planning Group now engages in a range of state-wide, regional, municipal, institutional and system-specific planning projects and has helped the firm’s clients develop strategic initiatives resulting in significantly increased economic and quality of life value.

Strategically responding to sweeping and dramatic global change has become the major concern of government, business and institutions.

Twentieth century methods of planning are becoming less effective in the 21st century as states, cities, counties, businesses and institutions are increasingly linked to the global network, become part of the new economic geography and compete within a new world economy.
Responding to the new opportunities and challenges of the 21st century involves the use of creative approaches. Comprehensive and integrated frameworks form the context for recognizing and understanding the forces that are driving change.