LAC Session Type
Panel
Date & Time
Friday, November 8, 2024, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location Name
Pavilion Ballroom East
Name
Planning Masquerading as Strategy: Creating a Future that Doesn’t Exist
Description
Learning Outcomes
- Participants will develop an awareness of Roger Martin’s insights on strategy.
- Participants will be able to distinguish between strategy vs. planning.
- Participants will be able to apply a critical practice to their strategic planning efforts.
- Participants will deduce how to avoid the pitfalls of strategic planning
Key Topics
- What is strategy and how does it differ from planning?
- What makes strategy difficult for academic libraries?
- What practical steps can libraries take to ensure their planning truly complements the parent institution’s plan and enhances their strategic choices? Or, if their institution doesn’t have a strategic plan, how can they reasonably scale a plan?
- Which of Martin’s five pitfalls of planning do panelists' strategic planning efforts most often exemplify? (5 pitfalls: Inconsequential, fragmented, Internally focused, control obsessed, extrapolative)
- How do we translate for-profit frameworks to social sector/public good organizations/institutions?
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