Planning

In this assignment, I interviewed Craig Rost, who’s been working in a planning field for 28 years and currently holds the position of executive director of Champaign Economic Development Corporation. He has a bachelor degree in Landscape Architecture and master degree in Urban Planning concentrating on economic development from the UIUC. The reason I chose him as practitioner to interview is that he has inspired me to learn more about economic development and process of creating and building…

substantially lower than elsewhere in the developing world (Larsson). The use of family planning is to help prevent accidental pregnancy and to stop the spreading of Sexually Transmitted Diseases including HIV. The current future of this region, the future that will evolve without meaningful interventions, is indeed depressing but should not be accepted as a possible future. Sub-Saharan Africa needs family planning services more than almost anywhere else in the world. With seventy percent of new…

In the beginning of the 20th century, family planning as we know it today was restricted, controlled, and in some instances, unlawful. There was little to no education regarding the details of fertilization, because the cycle of ovulation was not defined until 1928 (Center for Disease Control, 1988). Additionally, all forms of contraceptives and any education regarding contraceptives were against the law (Jensen, 1981). These restrictions caused sexually active women to become pregnant often,…

Workforce planning is an ongoing systematic identification and analysis of the workforce needs of an organisation to achieve its objectives. It is a critical element of organisational management. Workforce planning is a business-driven and business-owned process. It’s about knowing the organisation’s business and using this knowledge to position the organisation’s workforce to best deliver its business outcomes and manage workforce-related risks. Workforce planning is a process of identifying…

Strategic planning is crucial for the survival of any organization. It is a guidance for the organization to accomplish their missions and goals (SWOT Analysis, 2009). Through strategic planning, organization can allocate its resources to capitalize on opportunities and neutralize threats in the marketplace (Tanner & Raymond, 2012). More importantly, strategic planning helps organization develops a full awareness of all factors involved in a decision (Falcon, 2017). To create a strategic…

2. Question Vincent LeVeque speaks of strategy, information technology and security. The author then mentions “Information security strategic planning methodology” (LeVeque, V. 2006. p.4). What is this strategic planning used for and what benefits does it have? 2.1 Answer Information security strategic planning is used by organisations to mitigate, accept, transfer or prevent information risks related to people, technologies and business processes and adapting new security measures to its…

Introduction The organizational level in which strategic planning of public healthcare is done depends on the size, differentiation of the services provided and also the complexity of the organization. The different leaders’ and the different departments are responsible for the planning process. Public health organizations operate in an environment that is very unpredictable, and that keeps on changing, therefore, a strategic plan is necessary to help develop plans to cater for the changes. The…

Strategic spatial planning sees the environment as a whole and hold a “collective” view to discover issues and resources. It does not deal with only plans, so plans are only some tools to trigger change. Factors such as changes in economic systems, technological developments, increasing intensity of information, people’s relocation, decreasing the importance of physical boundaries, effects of global economy, transition from representative democracy to pluralistic and participatory democracy have…

Following a critical assessment or introspection, all strategic planning processes begin with a clearly enunciated vision, objective or goal translating to an expected outcome sometime in the future. That goal or destination depicts the strategic planning model’s zenith from Figure 3.1. Mature objectives articulate the very essence of rationality to avoid becoming somebody’s enormously expensive, irrecoverable aberration at a later date. And although these objectives define the end game, they…

With the dynamism in the market, strategic planning is inevitable. Every organization faces challenges and must be able to overcome and prepare for any ultimatums. This is only possible with the implementation of the framework to be used in making decisions in the organization. Strategic planning is considered as the process of preparing the organization through processes geared towards the organization’s mission. An effective strategy planning process generates and ensures there is sustenance…