Strategic planning practices and performance of selected colleges offering professional programmes

Abstract

There are a number of institutions that are coming up and offering a wide range of professional programmes. This study looked at a number of colleges, the programmes that they offer and it hoped to find if there is a relationship between strategic planning practices and performance. The findings revealed that a number of the institutions practiced strategic planning though some of the institutions were not fully aware of exactly what these strategic planning practices were, and if they even practiced them at all! The findings further revealed that institutions are now becoming more and more aware of strategic planning and the practices in this area. The institution are even establishing offices and positions to manage their strategic planning practices. The research objectives was to one identify strategic planning practices adopted by colleges and to determine whether strategic planning practices adopted by colleges influence the performance of such institutions. The study was conducted by administering questionnaires to departmental heads of the institutions. This questionnaire sought to find out the general information on each institution, how they go about in planning or implementing their strategic planning practices and what sort of performance indicators that they use within the institutions. From these findings it was recommended that institutions should allocate a higher budget for the strategic planning practices and that institutions should constantly monitor the environment when formulating their practices and they should try and involve more stakeholders while coming up with the practices.