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About College Planning

Planning is often not a linear process, and involves regular re-focusing and re-examining.

Planning processes and content are made stronger by a diversity of thought and opinion.

The college plan is part of the process, not the end of the process.

Creation of planning teams and framework: convene; negotiate; request resources; align actions; environmental scanning and strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis; liaise to executive leadership; build the plan so it is implementable and aligned to university priorities; strategic issues identification (including tactics; metrics; implementation teams and stakeholders; budget planning; unit planning; planning resources and gap analysis)
Development of mandates (formal and informal)
Creation of communications plans (audience; key messages; schedule for communicating; delivery methods)
Implementation of plans (processes are repeatable, definable, understandable; evaluate outcomes; work on barriers that are risks to strategic initiatives and tactics; review and revise the plan)

Who is responsible/ the authority to set the target?
Who is accountable to meet the target?
What is organizational capacity? List out physical resources, IT resources, fiscal resources, people resources
What measurements (milestones) will track, monitor, and assess the effectiveness of the plan? Where will you get the data, and who is responsible for tracking the metric, and how often?