Strategic Planning

CEOs, Consultants, and Strategic Planning: The Case for Pre-Assessment

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[dropcap] I’ve facilitated strategic planning processes that happily turn institutions around. I’ve also been party to lukewarm processes that don’t produce anything strategic. Hard-hitting and meaningful plans are always more desirable than plans filled with platitudes and unmeasurable promises. The difference is always in leadership.[/dropcap] The most skilled of facilitators can take a college only […]

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Getting to The Dance: Innovation and Strategic Planning

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[dropcap]Colleges from time to time tell me that they’d like to develop a new strategic plan, but that instead of an old fashioned “traditional” plan, they need an “innovative” plan. What advice would I have about how strategic planning and innovation could dance together? My enthusiasm always ticks up when I hear colleges aspire to

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Rick’s Rubrics for Strategic Planning

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[dropcap]In a professional life dedicated to making higher education a better place, interesting events come my way with increased frequency. I spent most of last week at Stellenbosch University in South Africa after having spent the week before near the Kruger National Park looking at the Big 5 (Africa’s lions, leopards, rhinos, hippos, and cape

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