Strategic Perspectives on Planning Practice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Strategic Perspectives on Planning Practice write by Barry Checkoway. This book was released on 1986. Strategic Perspectives on Planning Practice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Situated Practices of Strategic Planning
Situated Practices of Strategic Planning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Situated Practices of Strategic Planning write by Louis Albrechts. This book was released on 2016-07-22. Situated Practices of Strategic Planning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. All over the world societies are facing a number of major problems. New developments, challenges and opportunities cause these issues and yet cases tell us that traditional spatial planning responses and tools are often insufficient to tackle these problems and challenges. Situated Practices of Strategic Planning draws together examples from across the globe – from France to Australia; from Nigeria to the United States, as it observes international comparisons of the strategic planning process. Many approaches and policies used today fail to capture the dynamics of urban/regional transformation and are more concerned with maintaining an existing social order than challenging and transforming it. Stewarded by a team of highly regarded and experienced researchers, this book gives a synthetic view of the process of change and frames future directions of development. It is unique for its combination of analysis of international case studies and reflection on critical nodes and features in strategic planning. This volume will be of interest to students who study regional planning, academics, professional planners, and policy makers.
Making Strategies in Spatial Planning
Making Strategies in Spatial Planning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Making Strategies in Spatial Planning write by Maria Cerreta. This book was released on 2010-09-11. Making Strategies in Spatial Planning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This provocative collection of essays challenges traditional ideas of strategic s- tial planning and opens up new avenues of analysis and research. The diversity of contributions here suggests that we need to rethink spatial planning in several f- reaching ways. Let me suggest several avenues of such rethinking that can have both theoretical and practical consequences. First, we need to overcome simplistic bifurcations or dichotomies of assessing outcomes and processes separately from one another. To lapse into the nostalgia of imagining that outcome analysis can exhaust strategic planners’ work might appeal to academics content to study ‘what should be’, but it will doom itself to further irrelevance, ignorance of politics, and rationalistic, technocratic fantasies. But to lapse into an optimism that ‘good process’ is all that strategic planning requires, similarly, rests upon a ction that no credible planning analyst believes: that enough talk will miraculously transcend con ict and produce agreement. Neither sing- minded approach can work, for both avoid dealing with con ict and power, and both too easily avoid dealing with the messiness and the practicalities of negotiating out con icting interests and values – and doing so in ethically and politically critical ways, far from resting content with mere ‘compromise’. Second, we must rethink the sanctity of expertise. By considering analyses of planning outcomes as inseparable from planning processes, these accounts help us to see expertise and substantive analysis as being ‘on tap’, ready to put into use, rather than being particularly and technocratically ‘on top’.
An Exploration of Strategic Planning Perspectives and Processes Within Community Colleges Identified as Being Distinctive in Their Strategic Planning Practices
An Exploration of Strategic Planning Perspectives and Processes Within Community Colleges Identified as Being Distinctive in Their Strategic Planning Practices - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Exploration of Strategic Planning Perspectives and Processes Within Community Colleges Identified as Being Distinctive in Their Strategic Planning Practices write by Lisa Jeanne Augustyniak. This book was released on 2015. An Exploration of Strategic Planning Perspectives and Processes Within Community Colleges Identified as Being Distinctive in Their Strategic Planning Practices available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Community college leaders face unprecedented change, and some have begun reexamining their institutional strategic planning processes. Yet, studies in higher education strategic planning spend little time examining how community colleges formulate their strategic plans. This mixed-method qualitative study used an expert sampling method to identify three AQIP-accredited community colleges in one Midwestern state that were viewed as leaders in strategic planning. Using their AQIP Systems Portfolios and interviews with their senior leadership, this study examined these colleges’ strategic planning perspectives (i.e., the “point of view” that an organization has chosen to use as a basis for formulating their strategic plan) and processes (i.e., the series of actions, changes, or functions to achieve a desired result). This study also examined the extent to which these institutional leaders perceived that their strategic planning process added “value” to their institution. To examine strategic planning perspectives and processes at these institutions two different theoretical frameworks (i.e., Goodman and Willekens (2001) and Mintzberg et al.'s (1998) 10 strategic perspectives) were used. Goodman and Willekens’ research was updated to reflect the AQIP accreditation pathway, and a crosswalk was created to determine which, if any, of Mintzberg et al.'s 10 strategic perspectives were present at these community colleges. Key findings revealed both familiar and distinctive elements of strategic planning processes across the institutions under investigation. Instead of the three phases of strategic planning suggested in the literature, these institutions exhibited five phases, adding phases to advance their institutions from strategic planning to strategic thinking. All participating institutions relied on Mintzberg et al.'s (1998) configuration perspective rather than the positioning perspective indicated as more common in the literature. The institutional leaders interviewed all saw value in planning strategically, and noted it allowed their organizations to align priorities, perceptions, perspectives, processes, and personnel. Overall, this study revealed no specific recipe for strategic planning within these community colleges, but that successful strategic planning is contextual. It is a function of practices and models customized to fit a college’s unique setting (i.e., organization, leaders, and members).
Playing to Win
Playing to Win - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Playing to Win write by Alan G. Lafley. This book was released on 2013. Playing to Win available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explains how companies must pinpoint business strategies to a few critically important choices, identifying common blunders while outlining simple exercises and questions that can guide day-to-day and long-term decisions.
