Kevin Magner

I would say that Organizational Development Planning goes beyond the organization chart.  Not only do we need to identify positions and responsibilities, we lso need to assure that we have sufficient staff, library, and physical space resources to support the education programs. We need to reach out to the professions that our graduates will go to work in for recommendations for training and technology recources that students should learn about via related advisory boards.

Planning is essential for success in every business.  We need to do both long and short term planning.

Develop a 5 year plan and then create annual plans to support the five year plan.  Of course, situations always arise that can affect both short and long term planning and so an organization needs to able to tecognize those situations and be able to modify the plans in order to either overcome potential obstacles or be able to take advantage of new opportunities that those situations might provide.