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Planning. Planning. Planning: is the process of deciding what objectives to pursue during a future time period and what to do to achieve those objectives [Rue & Byars, 1997]. Why plan?. Strategic & operational planning. Time horizon: Long-range plans 10-20 year strategic plans
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Planning • Planning: is the process of deciding what objectives to pursue during a future time period and what to do to achieve those objectives [Rue & Byars, 1997]
Strategic & operational planning • Time horizon: • Long-range plans 10-20 year strategic plans • Intermediate plans • Short-range plans 1 year operational/tactical plans
Formal and functional plans • Formal plan written document, through a process • Informal plan unrecorded, everyday • Functional plan functional areas of the organization
Strategic plans • Grand strategies • Growth strategies • Stability strategies • Defensive strategies • Combination
Proper planning • Accomplishes: • Leads to better position • Progress toward most suitable objectives • Effective decision to progress to the desired direction • Keep flexibility • Stimulates collaboration & enthusiasm in solving problems • Leads to socially & economically useful results
Formulating strategy • Understand current position • Identify mission • Identify past & present strategies • Diagnose past & present performance • Setting objectives
Identifying mission • Sense of purpose & direction • Defined by the institution & stakeholders • Drucker: must be examined and defined time after time
Self evaluation • Identify past and present strategies • Do we have any strategy in the past? • Does it effective? • Does the strategy evolved over time? • Diagnose past and present performance • How does it perform now, last year, past 5 years? • Identify success and failure factors
Set objectives • Long-range objectives • In-line with mission • Rewarding & inspiring • Short-range objectives • Based on in-depth evaluation of long-range objectives • Clear, concise, quantified • RAISE++
Analysis • SWOT Analysis • Strategy comparisons • Benchmarking • Organizational factors • Force-field analysis • Root-cause analysis
Framework for development curriculum Teaching& learning Quality management Aims Student progression Student support Learning resources
Operational plans • Day-to-day operation • System approach: • Input-process-output • Continuous vs intermittent flow system
Stages • Operating system & activities • Service design • Process selection • Resource allocation • Asset & infrastructure management • Human resource management • Information management • Scheduling • Feedback and evaluation