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.

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.

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Ready-to-use strategic planning templates to share with your teams

Ready-to-use templates to share with your teams

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.
Get started with the Mural Strategy Blueprint template

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.

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