Strategic planning for building projects is a complex, multi-dimensional exercise. To succeed, your strategy must balance four interrelated variables: people, space, time and money. Each time you make a decision about one, it affects the others.

Strategic Dimensions has developed tools that allow leadership teams to explore facility options in a way that looks at growth, capacity, phasing and finances interdependently—and in real time. The process quickly reveals which scenarios work, which ones don't, and sometimes reveals options not considered before. The group exploration and evaluation process results in unified decisions. And unified decisions are the ones that stick.

If you start down a path and aren't able to finish, you lose momentum. If you get halfway through the process and have to value engineer, you disappoint. If the church overspends and takes on too much debt, your ministry—and credibility—can be crippled for years.

You wouldn't set out on a cross-country trip without a map.
Why start a building project without a thorough strategy?

Building projects are expensive—not only in terms of money, but also in time, energy and leadership capital. Mistakes can be costly...
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