Humans readily deploy external strategies in an attempt to offload cognitive work, a process commonly referred to as cognitive offloading. For example, individuals will often rotate their head in an attempt to normalize a rotated display (i.e., external normalization). Previous work has emphasized how various manipulations affect the overall use of the behavior to better understand the underlyi...

Strategic management involves decision-making about an organization's objectives together with the formulation and implementation of plans, particularly regarding the allocation of resources, to support their achievement. As such, strategic management is a dynamic and complex process involving consideration of internal and external factors, and the short and long term. The effectiveness of an o...

Strategic planning is now a ubiquitous practice in U.S. governments and nonprofi t organizations. Th e practice has become widespread for many reasons, but the chief one is the evidence that strategic planning typically “works,” and often works extremely well. Improvements in strategic planning practice are likely to come as it is seen and researched in its full richness as a practice, or set o...

CONTEXT Community-level strategic planning for chronic disease prevention. OBJECTIVE To share the outcomes of the strategic planning process used by Mississippi Delta stakeholders to prevent and reduce the negative impacts of chronic disease in their communities. A key component of strategic planning was participants' use of the Prevention Impacts Simulation Model (PRISM) to project the reduc...