Planning For Various Business Types : Academia
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We think of strategic planning as something companies do, but universities and colleges (academic institutions) need to develop comprehensive and long term planning systems to succeed. Learn about them here.
By Jayne W. Edge
More people than ever are enrolling in colleges and universities. However, with greater decreases in federal funding, as well as increasing demands for student services and aid, faculty services, technology, and learning options, the pressures to manage all of these factors fall on the institutions’ leadership. Higher education institutions need strong strategic planning to keep them optimally performing in today’s competitive environment. The same challenges affecting institutions overall also hold true for information technology departments; thus, raising the demand and need for strategic planning in higher education, especially for IT.
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By Paul J. Kobulnicky
Information technology planning at institutions of higher education should be derived from academic planning at the institution, school, and department levels and must respond to the associated issues of leadership, sustainable funding, productivity, and faculty motivation. The analysis in this article is derived from an academic information technology planning process undertaken at the University of Connecticut. Fundamental to this analysis is the concept that an increased adoption of information technology is a strategy towards a larger institutional vision and not an objective in and of itself.
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