Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations: A Guide to Strengthening and Sustaining Organizational Achievement - Hardcover

Bryson, John M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787901415 ISBN 13: 9780787901417

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1995

Synopsis

Shows leaders and managers of public and nonprofit organizations both how and why they should use strategic planning to improve the performance of their organizations. This expanded edition includes many examples to illustrate both successful and unsuccessful planning efforts, while new chapters address planning implementation, strategy evaluation and reassessment, and key leadership roles vital to effective strategic planning. In addition, the author presents a planning process used successfully by many public and nonprofit organizations--the Strategy Change Cycle--along with detailed guidance on its application.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Since John M. Bryson's widely acclaimed Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations was first published in 1988, it has been reprinted nine times and has become the standard book in the field. This thoroughly revised and expanded second edition sets the pace and combines information on leadership, strategic planning, and tools that can help leaders and followers enhance organizational achievement.

Bryson shows how leaders and managers of public and nonprofit organizations can use strategic planning to strengthen their organizations. In this expanded edition, the author includes many new examples of successful and unsuccessful strategic planning practices. In addition, this volume offers entirely new chapters that address the implementation of strategic planning, reassess strategies and the strategic planning process, and outline the key leadership roles that must be undertaken if strategic planning is to be effective. This book outlines the reasons public and nonprofit organizations should embrace strategic planning as a way of improving their performance and presents an effective planning process--Strategy Change Cycle--that has been successfully implemented by a large number of public and nonprofit organizations. Bryson offers detailed guidance on applying the process, describing specific tools and techniques that will prove invaluable.

The author discusses the major roles that must be played by individuals and groups for strategic planning to be successful and gives specific guidance on how this can be accomplished. And he clarifies the method by which strategic planning can be institutionalized so that strategic thought and action will be encouraged and embraced within the entire organization.

Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations will be an invaluable resource for leaders, managers, policymakers, and planners in public agencies (such as state and local governments) and in nonprofit organizations (including hospitals and educational institutions). The book is also a valuable tool for scholars of public affairs and administration.

Also available for Jossey-Bass: Workbook on Strategic Planning by John M. Bryson and Farnum Alston. This companion book to Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations, Second Edition is a step-by-step guide to conducting strategic planning in public and nonprofit organizations.

About the Author:

JOHN M. BRYSON is a professor of Planning and Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, in Minneapolis. He consults widely on leadership and strategic planning with public, nonprofit, and for-profit organizations in the United States and abroad. He is the author of Strategic Planning for Not-for-Profit Organizations (1994) and Successful Strategic Planning: A Guide for Nonprofit Agencies and Organizations (1993).

About this edition

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0787901415
• ISBN 13: 9780787901417
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352