BACKGROUND & AIM Strategic planning has been presented as an important management practice. However, evidence of its deployment in healthcare systems in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) is limited. This study investigated the strategic management process in Iranian hospitals. METHODS The present study was accomplished in 24 teaching hospitals in Tehran, Iran from September 2012 ...

If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top...that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem. (Fuller 1969, ...

This chapter presents a methodical strategic technology engineering planning (STEP) approach, to effectively cope with the design complexity in service-oriented architecture and manage the strategic planning of solution development of information systems. This holistic model comprises four modules: Want-Is-Target (WIT) model, Transition and Alignment Grid (TAG), Comprehensive Architecting Proce...

Over the past decade, shifts in subsidized and affordable housing policy have led to a greater role for market dynamics and individual choice on the part of program participants and their new neighbors, and a greater awareness of the importance of neighborhood on family outcomes. Given these trends, there is an opportunity for innovative prescriptive planning models to assist in the design of p...

Currently, the complexities inherent in higher education management are enormous. Many scholars agree that institutional environment related factors which are internally and externally driven affecting the performance of this day’s higher education institutions. Some of these factors involve massification and expansion of higher education system; reduced public funding; high quality concern; th...

This article reports experiences relative to the evaluation of a strategic planning and leadership development process adopted by a school system located in southern Louisiana. A description of the planning model utilized and its application to the areas of staff development and curriculum alignment are described. Factors associated with successful strategic planning and the benefits of impleme...