As part of the recent campaign, I was accused of flying by the seat of my pants and not having a plan. This came as some surprise as I had regularly mentioned and weighed our actions on the executive on the extent to which they measured against the 2012 plan.

A Strategic Plan for the Chess Federation of Canada 20120702.pdf

There are many academic and corporate arguments about the utility and futility of strategic plans and they often appear in the business press as in the case of this Harvard Business Review article.

https://hbr.org/2014/05/is-it-better...-opportunistic

Despite the arguments almost everyone commissions a strategic plan and then presents it and forgets about it until it is time for the development of the next strategic plan.