university strategic planning

[Chris Corrigan]

ps...here's a link to the College's page with their structure on it:
http://www.chd.ubc.ca/about/structure.  This came about as a result of the
process of which the OST was a part.
Chris

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Chris Corrigan <chris.corrigan at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi David...used OST a long time ago when a Department of Health Services
> was considering it's future within the University of British Columbia.  The
> resulting document was just a typical book of proceedings, which was rolled
> into the ongoing strategic planning work of which I was not a part.  I did
> however write a short story, the salient paragraph of which follows:
> The UBC OS was with a small group of 26 (24 of whom were women) to envision
> the future structure of an organization or a college which will unite a
> variety of faculties. The OS was convened to further work that had been
> captured in a strategic plan, and the half day went well. We had three hour
> long time periods and 12 discussions. There was a fair amoount of attrition
> with the result that during the last time period, the remaining group (16 or
> so) decided to meet in one circle to discuss the remaing three topics. What
> was remarkable was watching how the group moved through their work and then
> began their own closing. I was on the edge of my seat trying to figure out
> when the "session" had finished and the "closing" began. Fortunately I
> didn't have to do anything other than join the circle when the sponsor
> declared the closing opened (if you follow me.) Then I just sat in the one
> available chair in the circle and remarked about how deep their conversation
> seemed to be and how uncomfortable I was having to move it from one thing to
> another. We then did a quick closing and broke up.
>
> Not a data filled story of the critical path towards how we accomplished a
> full on strategic planning for a university, but a little more than a simple
> "yes" to your question.
>
> The long term result, by the way, was judged very positive by both the Dean
> and the Department head when I ran into them a few years later. A college
> was indeed formed and Dr. John Gilbert, my sponsor on the day, now heads
> it: John.Gilbert at ubc.ca
>
> Chris
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 2:09 PM, David Cox <dwcox at astate.edu> wrote:
>
>> Can anyone on the list give me an example of where OST has been used for
>> university or college strategic planning? Any contact names? Would anyone
>> happen to have the resulting document (strategic plan itself) from such an
>> OST event?
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