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2026 Strategic Planning Report

Media Kit

Want to reshare the data from our 2026 Strategic Planning Report in your news coverage or marketing? Below are some resources for you to use. If you have any questions or want to partner on a report together, email Alexandre Teulade at ateulade@clearpointstrategy.com.

The 2026 Strategic Planning Report by ClearPoint Strategy, cover with photos of city skylines

ClearPoint’s 2026 Strategic Planning Report offers an unprecedented view into organizational strategy. Our analysis of over 20,000 strategic plans over the last seven years reveals that the widest performance gap in business today is not strategic planning but strategic execution. The report highlights the factors that set top performers apart, proving that execution excellence is learnable — and achievable — for any organization.

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The Execution Gold Standard

The 5-goal median is proving optimal.
Lean KPI frameworks (9–11 measures) correlate with higher completion rates.
The top 5.7% of organizations average 93% strategy completion.

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The Accountability Advantage

High performers have an average of 5 owners per strategic initiative.
3–4 collaborators per owner promotes optimal performance.
Organizations that master strategic ownership will unlock 2–5x execution improvements.

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The Cadence Competency

Projects of 9–10 months show the strongest completion rates.
July is a natural strategic restart opportunity.
August/September and early December review periods support high performance.

These are among the findings contained in our first annual 2026 Strategic Planning Report, which aggregates anonymized activity from ClearPoint accounts from 2017 to 2024. We analyzed 31.2 million rows of data spanning over 20,000 strategic plans, 117,547 active strategic goals, 317,809 active measures, and 130,324 active projects. We standardized the terminology, normalized accounts, and focused on medians and trends so comparisons are fair across organizations of different sizes.