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At the Ready: Planning for Business Continuity
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Sharp, Linda – School Business Affairs, 2011
School system leaders never know when disaster may strike. Having a plan in place to protect vital data and systems is crucial. School system leaders need to be actively involved in crisis preparedness, planned response, and recovery to ensure student and staff safety and to make certain that all important operations, services, processes, and…
Descriptors: School Security, Crisis Management, Emergency Programs, School Safety
An Exploration of the Impact of an Open Governance Approach on Strategic Decision Making, Collaboration, Organizational Change, and Sustainability
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Hensley, Kendra – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Total quality management based governance models tend to focus on incremental improvements within the boundaries of a single organization. This may limit the benefits of information technology because they are not complex enough to address business or performance problems that extend beyond the boundaries of a single organization. The research…
Descriptors: Total Quality Management, Cooperation, Interviews, Program Effectiveness
Systems Thinking: A Missing Component in Higher Educational Planning?
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Galbraith, Peter L. – Higher Education Policy, 1999
Discusses difficulties within higher education management in achieving expected outcomes because of problematic elements in: artificial internal structures, funding formulae, the relative importance of system parameters versus system structure, and the significance of time scales and delays in influencing system behavior. Suggests that university…
Descriptors: College Planning, Decision Making, Entropy, Higher Education
Linking Planning, Quality Improvement, and Institutional Research
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Seymour, Daniel; Kelley, John M.; Jasinski, John – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2004
External and internal forces are driving institutions not only to create departments and positions that specialize in planning, quality improvement, and institutional research but also to link them within a systems context.
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Strategic Planning, Improvement Programs, Total Quality Management
Systemic Change.
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Tosti, Donald T. – Performance Improvement, 2000
Examines three factors contributing to organizational success: use of a systemic model to design and guide the change effort; analysis of interdependencies within the system and of the change potential; and use of communication methods to help ensure that the change will be supported. Presents characteristics of successful change efforts with…
Descriptors: Change, Communication (Thought Transfer), Organizational Change, Organizational Development
Systems Thinking (and Systems Doing).
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Brethower, Dale M.; Dams, Peter-Cornelius – Performance Improvement, 1999
Introduces human performance technology (HPT) by answering the following questions related to: what systems does; practical issues and questions to which systems thinking is relevant; research questions and answers with respect to systems thinking; how HPT practitioners can do systems thinking; systems thinking tools; what is and is not known…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Human Resources, Instructional Systems, Management Systems
Integrated Planning for Enrollment, Facilities, Budget, and Staffing: Penn State University
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Sandmeyer, Louise E.; Dooris, Michael J.; Barlock, Robert W. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2004
Integrated planning promotes collaborative thinking and furnishes mechanisms for linking strategic plans with operational plans. (Contains 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Program Implementation, Program Development, Program Effectiveness