Strategic Planning For Success: Aligning People, Performance, and Payoffs

by Roger Kaufman, Hugh Oakley-Brown, Ryan Watkins

Strategic Planning for Success offers you a pragmatic guide to the design and development of practical and pragmatic strategic thinking and organizational alignment that will yield high-impact results and measurably add value to you, your organization, your clients, and society. Unlike other books on the topic, this volume goes beyond simply detailing the tools and techniques of design and development by clearly showing how to align what you do with what will be most valuable to all stakeholders. Using this unique approach will yield extraordinary results adding measurable value that flows from individual performance accomplishment to organizational and societal contributions.

Genres: Nonfiction

416 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Roger Kaufman, Ph.D. is an influential figure in the history of the educational technology and performance improvement fields as well as strategic thinking and planning for public- and private-sector organizations. Regarded as one of the founding figures of the field, he is referred to as the father of needs assessment.

While needs assessment is such common practice today that many new practitioners may not be able to envision a time when it was not part of the standard process, his work in this area established one of the foundational concepts that sets professional practice apart. The core tenets of his work are reflected in the professional standards for certifying performance technologists, such as the emphasis on system thinking and planning and sound evaluation of outcomes.

Over his 40 years of work Kaufman developed what he considers to be his essential work - the Mega Planning model, a framework for adding measurable value to society.

In 2014, the International Society for Performance Improvement created an honorary award named the Roger Kaufman Award for Societal Impact honoring the work of individuals or groups who apply this systemic performance assessment and planning process with clear impact on societal outcomes.

Reviews

[Jeni Enjaian · Rating 2 out of 5]

In contrast to my rave review of Dahill-Brown, Kaufman, et. al, caused me to doze off many times. This massive tome contains little information contrary to its size. The authors repeat themselves in nearly every version possible of their statements throughout the entire book. In fact, while writing this review and remembering that at least four different people wrote this book, I hypothesize that all of them wrote their sections separately and that the editor piecing everything together trusted that the authors communicated amongst themselves and did not do their job and actually edit the book. I doubt the veracity of that unfortunately fanciful notion since I found, and fell asleep to, many repetitions within the same chapter.

I do not know whether this plagues other books of the strategic planning/business acumen genre since I rarely read them. I know have little incentive to do so. If I did not have questions on a midterm coming straight from this text, I would have put it down after the first 5 pages and never picked it up again, comfortable to abandon it as a waste of my time.

[Yeva · Rating 4 out of 5]

Simplistic and repetitive.