The Small-Town Midwest
The Small-Town Midwest

Author: Julianne Couch

Publisher: University of Iowa Press

Published: 2016-04-15

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1609384059

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Julianne Couch sets out to illuminate the lives and hopes of small-town residents from nine small communities in five states in the Midwest and Great Plains: Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Wyoming. Residents are betting that the tide of rural population loss can't go out forever, and they're backing those bets with creatively repurposed schools, entrepreneurial innovation, and community commitment. From Bellevue, Iowa, to Centennial, Wyoming, the region's small-town residents remain both hopeful and resilient.

Crash Course in Strategic Planning
Crash Course in Strategic Planning

Author: Stephen A. Matthews

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2013-08-15

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 1610690591

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For practitioners, this text provides an easy-to-understand approach to strategic planning and execution. The general recipe for achieving an intended outcome is equal parts of the following: clear vision and mission, a practical strategic plan, daily activities linked to the mission, and unified commitment to the plan. However, orchestrating the details of these necessary components is somewhat more complicated. Crash Course in Strategic Planning uses a process approach to the creation of a strategic plan, providing practitioners with no-nonsense instruction on planning. The volume is arranged to lead the reader through the stages of planning, from the beginning development stages through the execution of the plan to completing the plan and attaining the objective. A variety of recommended planning techniques are supplied for groups to use to accomplish their planning goals, and the final chapter emphasizes the importance of overall organizational commitment to execution of the plan.

Systematic Strategic Planning
Systematic Strategic Planning

Author: Hakan Butuner

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2015-11-05

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 1040076637

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This book provides a complete set of practical strategic planning techniques and tools. Readers are guided in identifying how and in what circumstances they might use particular tools, and in targeting them directly at achieving effective results. Systematic Strategic Planning consists of a framework of phases through which each project passes, a pattern of procedures for straight-forward planning and the fundamentals involved in any strategic planning project. The book is designed to be simple to understand and easy to use.

Cities on the Plains
Cities on the Plains

Author: James R. Shortridge

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13:

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"Drawing on rich historical research filtered through cultural geography, Shortridge looks at the 118 communities that ever achieved a population of 2,500 and unravels the many factors that influenced the growth of urban Kansas. He tells how mercantilism dominated urban thinking in territorial days until after statehood, when cities competed for the capital, prisons, universities, and other institutions. He also shows how geography and size were employed by entrepreneurs and government officials to prepare strategies for economic development. And he describes how the railroads especially promoted the founding of cities in the nineteenth century - and how this system has fared since 1950 in the face of globalization and the growth of interstate highways."--BOOK JACKET.

Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations
Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations

Author: John M. Bryson

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2004-10-11

Total Pages: 461

ISBN-13: 0787967556

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This new edition features the strategy change cycle, a proven planning process used by a large number of organizations; offers detailed guidance on implementing the planning process and includes specific tools and techniques to make the process work in any organization; introduces new material on creating public value, stakeholder analysis, strategy mapping, balanced scorecards, collaboration, and more; includes information about the organizational designs that will encourage strategic thought and action throughout the entire organization; and contains a wealth of updated examples and cases.

Census Catalog and Guide
Census Catalog and Guide

Author: United States. Bureau of the Census

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13:

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Includes subject area sections that describe all pertinent census data products available, i.e. "Business--trade and services", "Geography", "Transportation," etc.