Strategic Planning for Success!

Strategic Planning Mistakes and Case Studies is ideal for center and niversity research administrators. It provides essential data for developing strategic plans. It highlights mistakes in planning over the past several years. It includes over one hundred questions for assessing center plans and success. It points to areas where universities and centers have succeeded, and what policies and planning strategies contributed to their success. The book highlights thirty case studies of centers with examples of what contributed to their success-or failures. Fast growth universities are identified, as SUNY Albany, Oregon University of the Health Sciences, Baylor school of Medicine, Stanford, and the University of Pittsburg. It identifies the outcome variables as stakeholder satisfaction, quality research and return on investment used to measure success and strategies to collect the data. The book includes a chapter on probabilities for forecasting success based on past decisions, and identifying growth fields. It suggests variables to consider when forming a center and shifting directions. It also offers an outline for conducting workshops on strategic planning for research centers and universities.

The book “Strategic planning for Success, mistakes and case studies”- is directed toward research administrators, center directors and faculty involved with organized research units, university centers and departments.

It provides an overview of:

· The field, describes the major planning mistakes, and suggests what can be done to develop effective plans that lead to successful programs.

· The book includes outlines for preparing plans, examples of successful university and center plans. While the book is particularly helpful for administrators involved with research centers,

· It is also pertinent to research scientists and managers responsible for improving the effectiveness and efficiency of their operations.

· It is also useful for class discussions.

· It contains over thirty case studies based on examples dating from 1993, with comparisons to 2006-2007; to assess what went right or wrong.

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Table of Contents

			Page:
Chapters:
1		Successful Centers and Universities: Planning and Evaluation	7
2		Characteristics of Fast Growing ResearchUniversities and Centers	11
3		Planning and Evaluation Types	33
4		Probabilities of Centers succeeding: winning awards	51
5		The Planning Process	59
6		*The Basic Elements of strategic Plans*	67
7		**Developing a University-WideCenter Planning and Evaluation System**	73
8		Major Planning and Evaluating Mistakes	77
9		Outline for Conducting Academic Research Planning and Evaluation workshops	97
10		Case Studies	101
Appendix:
1 Systems Outcome Measures: Highlights from The Army Research Laboratory Strategic Plan			151
2	EPSCoR Review Criteria for Centers and other Grant Proposals		154
3	Glossary of Terms and Concepts		155
4	The PART Assessment Rating Tool		158
5	Strategic Planning for Research Centers and Universities, Worksheets:		162
6	Major Center Elements		165
7	Rate Your University in Terms of Center support from university		169
8	Highlights of University and Center strategic planning approaches		170
9	Bibliography		177

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