Opportunity from Strength: Strategic Planning Clarified with Case Examples

Chapter 20 Strategic Planning for Career Services

“…Strategic thinking involves the integration of planning, leadership, and management (Cope, 1987;Haycock, Cheadle, & Bluestone, 2012;Omahe, 1982). Strategic thinking raises farreaching issues such as the following: Are we providing the range and variety of career services that meet the needs of our targeted clientele?…”

“…Strategic planning is also an organizational problem solving and decision-making process, and therefore amenable to analysis within the framework of CIP theory. The strategic planning process, as outlined by Bryson (2018), as well as Cope (1987), can be embedded within the CASVE cycle, while the members of a strategic planning task force or committee possess the knowledge and capabilities contained in the respective domains of the Pyramid of Information Processing. Thus, the members possess self-knowledge and organizational knowledge at the base, problem solving and decision-making skills (presented below) at the mid-section, and the chair of the committee provides the executive function at the apex by organizing and leading the group through the process.…”