Strategic management and University

1. Strategic management and University Josip Kregar 16 November 2007

2. Strategy Strategy means an effort to articulate guidelines for the identification of actual problems in public administration as well as a framework for taking decisions that answer the question “what do we want to do and what do we want to achieve”.

3. Predictforecast envisage see comingcalculate A reform strategy for univesrity means understanding of the directions of change in the economic, political and social system within which the university functions, understanding the new problems and possibilities it is faced with, understanding the potential and dangers that await us in the foreseeable future.

4. STRATEGY CONSISTS OF LONG TERM VISION OF WHAT WE SEEKS TO DO AND WHAT KIND OF SOCIETY WE INTEND TO BE WHAT WE WANT To be in hell is to drift, to be in heaven is to steer Georg Bernard Shaw Strategic objectives specify the desired performance of public administration WHAT TO DO What is strategy

5. In my mind, talent+ knowledge+ effort account for sucess strategy provides the basis for establishing performance criteriaand criteria for the recruitment of people who will know how to cope with future problems, the basis for a collective assessment and professional interaction among all those involved and finally, as regards the practical aspect the most important, the strategy is the basis which will ensure that unforeseen and practical objectives be perceived in the framework of long-term results to be attained. in the course of time and the elements of chance or politically opportunistic calculations will be substituted by strategic guidance.

6. The university reform strategy does not refer to the forms of administration, the number of ministries, the form of employment agreements or the manner in which the university is financed, neither does it refer to the number of employees. The strategy is not a definite action plan clearly exposed in a given document or an overall understanding of a sequence of actions necessary in order to attain a goal or instructions as to how mobilize all those activities aimed at achieving such a goal. The future is not in hands of faith but in ours For now we have only a plans for location of new buildings - urbanistic planing

7. Politicians think about the next elections while true statesmen think about the next generation. .A purely pragmatic approach may hardly suffice for reform of universities regardless of how vigorous it might be. Reforms of university should not be reduced to political decision-making where the effect of the popularity of measures to be taken is crucial.

8. Politicians think about the next elections while true statesmen think about the next generation. A strategy may not rely on a method based on taking the easiest decision, if in the long run such a decision might be expensive or detrimental. A strategic task, therefore, is not to set a rule for new laws or other pieces of legislation but an understanding of the question what kind of university we want and more importantly what are the means to achieve this!

9. Suppose that France suddenly lost fifty of her best physicists, chemists, matematitians, arhitects… It would require at least a generation for France to repair this misfortune; Let us pass to another assumption. Suppose that France preserves all man of genius..but has the misfortune to lose in the same day Monsieur Kongs brother and other aristocrats Saint-Simon, The Unjust Society, The Organizer, 1819 Utopia

10. What to do!? Ignorance, superstition, idleness and costly dissipation are the privilege of the leaders of society…from the point of view of morality,the most moral man have the responsibility of leading citizens towards virtue; from the point of view of distributive justice, the most guilty men are appointed to punish minor delinquents

11. Vision Statement We attempt to build efficient, modern, university extended to the material possibilities of society, focussed on future end development. Competent university equipped to recognize pressing social needs. We want university designed and acting according to the European standards. We require decentralization and polycentric flexible institutional framework..

12. Essential University reform is not an aim for itself. The success of reform depends of the social ability to administer relations with economy, politics and society. The success is not to change only the institutional skeleton and laws, but to support dynamic energetic economic change and sustain democratic stabilisation. 3

13. how can that be The question is not what but primarily HOW not destruction but preparation • resources • emergency plans • ignore political change

14. Implementation . Difficulties do not lie in the formulation of acts but in their implementation. In other words this means that measures apparently acceptable and justifiable will not yield any effect if not coordinated and concerted in a time frame in line with general strategic objectives. While errors may over time yield good results, the best ideas may in the long run be spoilt.

15. Nothing must be destroyed, nor institutions cancelled or people substituted without a very good reason and awareness of the manner in which the activity is to be continued. What we want is of little importance if we do not know how to achieve it.

16. . A “merit principle” regarding recruitment, status, promotion, remuneration should be strictly respected, and depolitization of positions and function as well as ongoing lifelong on the job training enhanced.

17. To overcome such trends, to modernize the university and bring it closer to European standards and norms of conduct, will be an expensive, long lasting, and because of the difficulties, not easily predictable undertaking. In the reform the word “undertaking” implies firm political will, constant focus, all-inclusive help, the use of knowledge, experience and cooperation.

18. THE PRICE OF PROGRESS IS TROUBLE. Life does not stand still. Where there is no progress there is disintegration