MGT-660 Strategic Management

Strategic Plan (Vision): Improve the academic strength of the students through teaching, learning and research.

Primary Goals/Objectives:

1. Establish a strong teaching fraternity in the university Comment by Mary McDonald: Good job with your measurable objectives. Just make sure you can quantify as much as possible.

2. Enhance the ability of the students to learn effectively in the college campuses

3. Promote student research and innovations.

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Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Goal/Objective (How will you reach your strategic initiative?)

· Establish a strong teaching fraternity in the university through recruitment of new and highly productive tutors

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Goal/Objective (How will you reach your strategic initiative?)

· Enhance the ability of the students to learn effectively in the college campuses by equipping the libraries with books and computers

· Equip the lecture halls with learning equipment like projectors and screens.

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Goal/Objectives (How will you reach your strategic initiative?)

· Promote student research and innovations through renovation of the laboratories

· Increase project incubation hubs in the colleges.

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Operational Issues (Consider problems that might arise and the importance of contingency planning) Comment by Mary McDonald: Good information but some research to support your objectives would help take it to the next level.

· Lack of qualified tutors who meet the selection standards to be set by the university

· Lack of funds to drive the selection process

· Opposition from the university senate

Operational Issues (Consider problems that might arise and the importance of contingency planning)

· Lack of enough funding to purchase the equipment

· Lack of qualified personnel to drive the equipping exercise.

· On the job injuries

Operational Issues (Consider problems that might arise and the importance of contingency planning)

· Insufficient funds

· There is need to set aside more funds for this process.

Human Resources (How will you address staffing needs and organizational growth?) Comment by Mary McDonald: Again, good ideas but how will you know how to staff up to support your strategy? While the University Senate may have ideas, you need to make sure you are presenting them with what you need.

· The university senate will provide a guidance to the selection criteria to be followed.

· The university staff placement council will be key in conducting the interviews

Human Resources Issues (How will you address staffing needs and organizational growth?)

· The university human resources department shall overlook the staff hiring and assignments

· The current staffs will guide the new staffs on the various functions in the student academic department

Human Resources Issues (How will you address staffing needs and organizational growth?)

· The university human resources department shall overlook the staff hiring and assignments

· The current staffs will guide the new staffs on the various functions in the student academic department

Supply Chain (How and where will you acquire resources?) Comment by Mary McDonald: Some research on supply chain to support your objectives would here. Comment by Mary McDonald:

· The university through the state education department has allocated funds to drive the whole hiring drive

· The universities commission will be responsible for the disbursement of salaries for the hired tutors

Supply Chain (How and where will you acquire resources?)

· Through a tendering process

· Utilization of the ready resources within the university like TV screens.

Supply Chain (How and where will you acquire resources?)

· Through a tendering process

· Utilization of the ready resources within the university like computers.

Marketing (Consider 4 P’s and I’s, target market, pricing, brand value, and CSR) Comment by Mary McDonald: Good ideas here, but more incorporation of the 4PS would have moved you to the next level.

· The university is strategically located in the heart of Phoenix city Arizona

· Advertisement the university through televisions, radio, social media and the university website

· The hired tutors will be handsomely salaried

· They will be required to offer high quality training to the GCU undergraduates.

Marketing (Consider 4 P’s and I’s, target market, pricing, brand value, and CSR)

· The lecture halls are found in Albuquerque, Banner Boswell , Central Phoenix and North Phoenix  campuses

· The halls shall be offer the students comfortable leaning conditions and resources

· The best tenders should be affordable and offer quality finishes

· Tenders to be advertised through the televisions, radio, social media and the university website

Marketing (Consider 4 P’s and I’s, target market, pricing, brand value, and CSR)

· The laboratories and incubation centers are found in Albuquerque, Banner Boswell , Central Phoenix and North Phoenix  campuses

· They shall offer the students state of the art research centers

· The best tenders should be affordable and offer quality finishes

· Tenders to be advertised through the televisions, radio, social media and the university website.

Value Chain (How does your firm add value to primary and support activities in the value chain?) Comment by Mary McDonald: Good ideas again, but what about the rest of the value chain? Some research on value chains would help further validate your approach.

· The lectures shall be retrained by highly qualified world scholars so as to give world class teachings and trainings.

Value Chain (How does your firm add value to primary and support activities in the value chain?)

· The classes shall not only allow live lectures but also live streamed and broadcasted lectures so that the students may have diverse education.

Value Chain (How does your firm add value to primary and support activities in the value chain?)

· The laboratories shall connect the students to world resources and great researchers for differentiated and diverse ideas.

Leadership (Leadership methodology and any bias you may have.) Comment by Mary McDonald: Leadership style research would help validate the objectives.

· The lecturers shall be placed directly under departmental heads.

· The departmental heads shall be under college administrators

Leadership (Leadership methodology and any bias you may have.)

· We shall have student leaders who will represent the class members to the lecturers and the school administration

Leadership (Leadership methodology and any basis you may have.)

· The school administration shall hire and offer administrative support to the lab managers and staffs

Ethics & Sustainability (What are the ethical considerations related to your identified goal/objective) Comment by Mary McDonald: Again, good ideas but you need research to support your ethics and sustainability ideas.

· The student lecturer relationship

· The ability and commitments of the lecturers

· The spirituality or holiness of the tutor

Ethics & Sustainability (What are the ethical considerations related to your identified goal/objective)

· The student lecturer relationship

· The ability and commitments of the students

Ethics & Sustainability (What are the ethical considerations related to your identified goal/objective)

· The student lecturer relationship

· The ability and commitments of the students