P.AD-890

Course Number

P.AD-890

Course Name

Strategic Mgt in Public Servic

Course Credits

3.00-

Description

’This capstone course for the MPA Program explores the essential elements of strategic management: the foundation (including Systems Thinking), strategic analysis, and strategy development and implementation. Using provocative case studies on government, nonprofit and healthcare organizations, students conduct sophisticated internal assessments of organizational strengths and weaknesses as well as eternal assessments of opportunities and threats/challenges, identify strategic and operational issues, and develop strategies and action steps to address the issues. For the final project, each student develops a strategic plan for an organization or conducts a research project for an organization or strategic issue of particular interest. Fundamentally, this course focuses on applying strategic and systemic thinking in diagnosing organizational circumstances and developing strategies for ’what to do next.’


	P.AD-890 Course Number P.AD-890 Course Name Strategic Mgt in Public Servic Course Credits 3.00- Description ’This capstone course for the MPA Program explores the essential elements of strategic management: the foundation (including Systems Thinking), strategic analysis, and strategy development and implementation. Using provocative case studies on government, nonprofit and healthcare organizations, students conduct sophisticated internal assessments of organizational strengths and weaknesses as well as eternal assessments of opportunities and threats/challenges, identify strategic and operational issues, and develop strategies and action steps to address the issues. For the final project, each student develops a strategic plan for an organization or conducts a research project for an organization or strategic issue of particular interest. Fundamentally, this course focuses on applying strategic and systemic thinking in diagnosing organizational circumstances and developing strategies for ’what to do next.’