I. E. 2. Agency Strategic Planning

I. E. 2. Agency Strategic Planning

The Commissioner shall ensure that a comprehensive, participative planning process is conducted at least every third year to develop and maintain an agency-wide strategic plan. The planning process shall enhance communication throughout the agency and enable the agency to make critical decisions based on analysis of relevant information. The planning process shall be used to manage change, focus on the future, and help to achieve long-term, sustainable results.

The Department strategic planning process shall be an integrated agency-level and local-level system that may involve

extensive research and assessment techniques such as statistical data analyses, interviews, reviews of the literature, and survey analyses;
various situational analyses and scanning techniques including SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats), trend, market, business function, success factor, and success inhibitor analyses;
strategy development and analysis; and
strategic resource needs assessment.

The planning process shall be used to develop long-range strategic goals and objectives that provide overall guidance for the entire agency. The Department strategic plans shall be designed with the realization that the Technical Colleges implementing the plan shall require flexibility in contributing to the achievement of the agency-wide objectives. The Department strategic plan shall be designed to enable each Technical College to develop local strategies to contribute to each agency-wide objective and, thereby, to address the statewide objectives in terms of local needs, capabilities, and interests.

In addition to conducting an in-depth planning process to develop the strategic plan every third year, the strategic plan shall be reviewed, updated as needed, recommended to the Georgia Board of Technical and Adult Education for adoption, and approved by the Board no later than June 30th each year. The approved strategic plan shall conform to the requirements of Georgia law and shall establish the mission, vision, values, goals, outcomes, and objectives for the agency.

Created: April 23, 2001

Approved