Kentucky's Postsecondary Education System encompasses nine public institutions and numerous independent institutions and Kentucky Adult Education. The system represents 229,061 students, 538,866 Kentucky alumni, and 275,108 GED recipients. When Kentuckians earn postsecondary degrees, their skills improve and their wages go up; they are more likely…

The West Virginia State Board of Education assumed administrative control of the Lincoln county school system in June 2000, following a state report on the county?s failure to make adequate progress in rectifying major deficiencies identified in an October 1999 audit. One of the conditions for regaining local board control was that the Lincoln…

Describes an eight-part long-range planning model: (1) creating a vision; (2) conducting a management audit; (3) establishing basic values; (4) writing a mission statement; (5) identifying assumptions; (6) adapting overarching goals; (7) setting specific measurable objectives; and (8) developing feedback and adaptive processes. (SK)

Advises that public health professionals use a matrix called the logical framework to plan programs--it helps define and appraise the relationships among activities and results. Finds that factors used to judge the success of a program must be explicitly defined in advance. (PA)

Discusses strategic and tactical planning with regard to implementing technologies in libraries. Strategic planning involves setting parameters for decision making, while tactical planning entails devising ways of dealing with problems created by the new technology. The benefits and dilemmas of both types of planning are covered. Contains 19…

Presents a case study of the Virtual Retina project (an instructional CD-ROM for ophthalmology students) at the University of Alberta as an example of strategic dissonance in an educational technology unit. Offers methods to analyze the external competitive environment and internal capabilities of educational technology units. (EV)

Proposes a conceptual framework for managing relationships of small and medium-sized enterprises, based on the necessity of cooperation for survival. Describes characteristics of embedded relationship in stakeholder interactions, including trust, durability, information transfer, and collaboration. (Contains 72 references.) (SK)

Shows how to foster creative thinking by using materials and exercises based on metaphor. Explains how to use metaphor-based readings from nonbusiness sources. Includes a reading list and application examples. (Contains 54 references.) (SK)

Personal account of her first-year experience as superintendent of Washington County Public Schools in Hagerstown, Maryland. (PKP)

Examines the political and social changes that have inspired the Wise Use/Property Rights organizations operating in the American West. Discusses issues surrounding the actual numbers of people involved in the movement, public sentiment, and strategies used by key activists. (LZ)

Discusses evaluation for human performance improvement and organizational success. An expanded framework that builds on the traditional four-level training evaluation framework is suggested that includes strategic and tactical planning, performance improvement, organizational development, customer satisfaction, total quality, societal…

Discusses total quality management principles and expands conventional total quality programs to go beyond client satisfaction by including societal usefulness. Highlights include contributing to future well-being; paradigm shifts; and integrating quality management plus and strategic planning to create synergistic organizational improvement. (LRW)

Reports the results of a survey of the Association for Assessment in Counseling (AAC) members concerning the organization's activities, its journal, its newsletter, strategic planning goals, and convention activities. Results indicate that there is widespread agreement with AAC mission and identity statements, and support for all nine planning…

Information technology (IT) presents universities with new challenges and opportunities. This paper identifies three principles to guide IT management: consideration of IT when formulating strategic plans; integration of IT management to enhance recognition of economies of scale and opportunities for technical substitution; and direct user…

Multiple task forces of business graduate students developed strategic plans for local organizations and analyzed them as "living cases." Such field-based projects are relevant and realistic. (SK)