Process and Goals: An Overview
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| Goals |
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To develop a workable university level strategic plan that will provide direction for the institution and offer the framework for smaller planning units (colleges, service units and departments) for academic years 2005-2006 to 2010-2011. |
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To integrate the concerns from the NCA Evaluation Team Visit (April 2003) into the plan so that the concerns will be addressed prior to the next visit in 2013. |
| Concerns |
| These concerns were identified by CSU's president and the current New Millennium Strategic Planning Committee. |
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Make the plan realistic and manageable. |
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Limit the number of strategies. |
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Limit the number of indicators or eliminate them. |
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Establish widespread university involvement and planning. Keep the campus informed. |
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Make sure that planning items (goals and strategies) are addressed.Develop a procedure for merging and monitoring the planning processes as well as one for obtaining approval from the steering committee, president and trustees.
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Develop a common process and format for each task force. |
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Budget considerations must be included. |
| Developing A Common Process |
Identify strategic issues - a fundamental challenge affecting an organization's mission, product or service level and mix, clients or users, costs, financing, organization or management.
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A list of strategic issues faced by the organization |
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An ordering of issues in terms of priority |
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those requiring immediate attention |
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issues in the horizon that would likely require action in the near future |
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issues for which it is unclear whether any action will be required now or in the future |
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Task forces develop strategies and indicators linked to the strategic issues
- List the issue specific goal/objective.
- List the strategies.
- A strategy is a pattern of purposes, policies, programs, projects, actions, decisions and resource allocations. |
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What is the purpose of the strategy? |
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How does it address the issue and achieve the issue specific goal? Can the strategy be achieved? |
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What are the barriers to implementing the strategy? |
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What are the resources (people and dollars) needed? |
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Who is the responsible person?
- Develop checklists to evaluate the strategies and the plans. |
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| John Bryson and Farnum Alston. Creating and Implementing Your Strategic Plan: A Workbook for Public and Nonprofit Organizations . San Francisco : Jossey Bass (1996) |
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