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Industrial Technology Program Enhancement: The Importance of Strategic Planning

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Abstract

In today’s rapidly changing, reconfigurable workplace, work has become information-oriented and knowledge-intensive. To keep up with these workplace changes, a new fundamental approach to the process of oversee- ing the education and training of the 21st century workforce has emerged. Success, in this intensely competitive, global, market-driven economy de- pends on having capable “educational processes,” and ample resources to enhance or optimize these processes. In the context of higher education, the ma- jor input resource for a process capable community college or university is a well designed strategically managed educational system. It could be argued that this has tremendous implications at the program level for industrial technology programs.

Keywords: administration|higher education|leadership|management|quality

How to Cite:

Brown, D. C. & Meier, R., (2005) “Industrial Technology Program Enhancement: The Importance of Strategic Planning”, Journal of Industrial Technology 21(4).