We ll rank our overall success compared to these targets next spring, and then renew the process. They provide a way for us to fit the President s and Regents expectations into our work. Similarly, they bring activities of our component units into alignment with College goals. Barriers to meeting goals, such as structural or operating problems, ambiguities, differences and misunderstandings anything that stands in the way of meeting a goal are uncovered, and there are now strong incentives to resolve them. In the past they might have gone untreated.
Planning focuses multiple resources, human and financial, on priority areas for greater impact.
It allows us to adapt more successfully to change and opportunities. For example, when the Tools for Transformation program was announced, we were ready and filed a request almost immediately. But that s not all. Once your organization sees the power of strategic thinking and internalizes it, things happen that were not previously imagined. The simple procedure of arranging alternatives and contingencies in an orderly way often leads to useful new strategies.