Search Results for Strategic planning - Narrowed by: Strategic planning -- United States.

How domestic trends in the U.S., China, and Iran could influence U.S. Navy strategic planning [electronic resource] / John Gordon IV [and others].

2024-05-14T01:12:42Z

by Gordon, John, 1956-
Call Number 359.030973 22
Publication Date 2008
Summary To help the U.S. Navy understand how near-, mid-, and far-term trends in the United States, China, and Iran might influence its investments, RAND examined emerging domestic and regional nonmilitary trends in each of the three countries.--Publisher description.
Format: Electronic Resources
Click here to view

What should think tanks do? [electronic resource] : a strategic guide to policy impact / Andrew Selee.

2024-05-14T01:12:42Z

by Selee, Andrew D.
Call Number 001.40684 23
Publication Date 2013
Summary Think tanks and research organizations set out to influence policy ideas and decisions-a goal that is key to the very fabric of these organizations. And yet, the ways that they actually achieve impact or measure progress along these lines remains fuzzy and underexplored. What Should Think Tanks Do? A Strategic Guide for Policy Impact is the first practical guide that is specifically tailored to think tanks, policy research, and advocacy organizations. Author Andrew Selee draws on extensive interviews with members of leading think tanks, as well as cutting-edge thinking in business.
Format: Electronic Resources
Click here to view

Measuring the effectiveness of border security between ports-of-entry [electronic resource] / Henry H. Willis [and others].

2024-05-14T01:12:42Z

by Willis, Henry H.
Call Number 363.2850684 22
Publication Date 2010
Summary Strategic planning is necessary if the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is to carry out its border-security missions effectively and efficiently. As part of that, DHS leadership must define concrete and sensible objectives and measures of success. These can be used to assess results along the way, to guide allocation of resources, and to inform programming and budgeting for future capabilities and functions. This report offers research and recommendations on ways to measure the overall efforts of the national border-security enterprise between ports of entry. To be meaningful, the set of measures for effectiveness of border security should be sound, reliable, useful, and general. Three DHS missions appear to currently be of special interest to DHS leadership because they are especially problematic: illegal drug control, counterterrorism, and illegal migration. The report recommends measuring performance of three fundamental functions that border-security efforts contribute to achieving national policy objectives: interdiction, deterrence, and exploiting networked intelligence. If the steps described here are taken, DHS and its components will be in a better position to discuss past performance and to provide reasoned justifications for future allocation of resources. Further, they will be able to relate their efforts to those of other agencies in pursuit of national objectives.
Format: Electronic Resources
Click here to view

Beyond school improvement : the journey to innovative leadership / Robert Davidovich [and others] ; foreword by Rick Stiggins.

2024-05-14T01:12:42Z

by Davidovich, Robert.
Call Number 371.207 22
Publication Date 2010
Summary Filled with anecdotal examples, reflection exercises, and practical strategies, this is a useful and timely resource for educators seeking to understand and influence educational innovation and transformation in the 21st century.
Format: Electronic Resources
Click here to view

Strategic issues management [electronic resource] : organizations and public policy challenges / Robert L. Heath, Michael J. Palenchar.

2024-05-14T01:12:42Z

by Heath, Robert L. (Robert Lawrence), 1941-
Call Number 659.2 22
Publication Date 2009
Summary "By exploring the communication options that organizations can employ in their stewardship to address crucial public policy options and engage in collaborative decision making, Strategic Issues Management gives students practical, actionable guidance. Issues management is vital to an organization's strategic management. It entails understanding and achieving high standards of corporate responsibility by listening to the opinions of key members of the public."--Publisher's website.
Format: Electronic Resources
Click here to view

Emerging threats and security planning [electronic resource] : how should we decide what hypothetical threats to worry about? / Brian A. Jackson, David R. Frelinger.

2024-05-14T01:12:42Z

by Jackson, Brian A., 1972-
Call Number 355.033573 22
Publication Date 2009
Summary "Concerns about how terrorists might attack in the future are central to the design of security efforts to protect both individual targets and the nation overall. In thinking about emerging threats, security planners are confronted by a panoply of possible future scenarios coming from sources ranging from the terrorists themselves to red-team brainstorming efforts to explore ways adversaries might attack in the future. This paper explores an approach to assessing emerging and/or novel threats and deciding whether, or how much, they should concern security planners by asking two questions: (1) Are some of the novel threats 'niche threats' that should be addressed within existing security efforts? (2) Which of the remaining threats are attackers most likely to execute successfully and should therefore be of greater concern for security planners? If threats can reasonably be considered niche threats, they can be prudently addressed in the context of existing security activities. If threats are unusual enough, suggest significant new vulnerabilities, or their probability or consequences means they cannot be considered lesser included cases within other threats, prioritizing them based on their ease of execution provides a guide for which threats merit the greatest concern and most security attention. This preserves the opportunity to learn from new threats yet prevents security planners from being pulled in many directions simultaneously by attempting to respond to every threat at once."--Page 4 of cover.
Format: Electronic Resources
Click here to view