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Planning in an academic matrix research center.
Introduction
To reach a goal, concepts must be shaped into designs then set into a plan that leads to implementation. Strategic planning is a disciplined effort to produce fundamental decisions and actions that shape and guide what an organization is, what it does, and why it does it, with a focus on the future. (Adapted from Bryson's Strategic Planning in Public and Nonprofit Organizations). So it is in the Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center, an NCI designated comprehensive cancer center at the University of California, San Diego. This report will discuss our approach to planning, the essential elements, the manner in which we foresee the plan being actualized, and the metrics applied to measure progress. Planning in the Cancer Center i...See the full content of this document
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