Creating Public Value

Creating Public Value
Human services professionals actively participate in program and organizational planning to consider what can be accomplished in the here and now. Strategic planning, on the contrary, projects what can be accomplished in the future. The difference is significant. By projecting into the future, strategic planners must consider some factors that exist today as well as social, economic, and political factors and strengths and weaknesses that concern the program or organization into the future. As a multidisciplinary activity, strategic planning relies on critical thinking, learning, and action initiated by strategic planners.
Based on your readings of Bryson, UNESCO, and Webster this week, discuss the role of strategic planning in human services as a method for creating public value by a government, for-profit, nonprofit, or mixed (hybrid) organization. In the UNESCO reading, pay special attention to Part 1, “Origin and History” and Part 2, “Concept and Characteristics” (pages 7–13). While the UNESCO working paper is designed to address education, the planning approach for human services and education are very similar.
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Readings
Use the Capella University Library to read the following:
Bryson, J. M. (2018). Strategic planning for public and nonprofit organizations: A guide to strengthening and sustaining organizational achievement (5th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
Part 1 introduction, “Understanding the Dynamics of Strategic Planning,” page 2.
Chapter 1, “Why Strategic Planning Is More Important Than Ever,” pages 3–34.
Bryson, J. M., Ackermann, F., & Eden, C. (2007). Putting the resource-based view of strategy and distinctive competencies to work in public organizations. Public Administration Review, 67(4), 702–717.
Phelps, C., Madhavan, G., Rappuoli, R., Levin, S., Shortliffe, E., & Colwell, R. (2016). Strategic planning in population health and public health practice: A call to action for higher education. Milbank Quarterly, 94(1), 109‒125.
Use the Internet to read the following:
Webster, S. A., & Wylie, M. (1988). Strategic planning in human service agencies [PDF]. The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, 15(3), 46‒63.
UNESCO. (2010). Strategic planning: Concept and rationale [PDF]. International Institute for Educational Planning. Available from http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001897/189757e.pdf

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