Text: Just as important, involving stakeholders in strategic planning efforts can help create a basic understanding among the stakeholders of the competing demands that confront most agencies, the limited resources available to them, and how those demands and resources require careful and continuous balancing.
Entailment: When stakeholders are included in the planning process, they become more informed of the resources an agency has its disposal.
Contradiction: Excluding stakeholders from the strategic planning phase makes it easier for them see what kind of resources the agency is working with.