Higher Education Auxiliary Managers face unique challenges when confronting the conceptualization and implementation of projects. Applying academically-based project management and strategy frameworks to the process, along with the careful consideration of the stakeholders, leadership, decision-making and cultural implications, is critical to success.

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This is a story about opportunity and potential impact of expanding of a small market minor league baseball team, into new facilities.

Determining the opportunity by assessing potential market size and scale, and lobbying for a new stadium, requires careful market research, stakeholder analysis, and financial modelling. Once approved, the team needs to undergo a transformation through a marketing and re-branding program.

Seen through the eyes of the general manager, this strategic planning and change management case study examines the team’s mission, history, and potential to revitalize a desolate and decaying section of Richmond Virginia.

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Mission and strategy are the blueprints that should guide an organization’s actions. As the organization and its external environment evolves, the entity is often challenged to adapt their strategic direction to remain competitive. It is critical in these situations to find a way to balance the opportunity for expansion with core values. This is a story of a local non- profit that faced these tension between protecting core values and growth, between honoring the founders vision and expansion.

21 Pages

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What is the purpose of developing a strategic plan? A strategic plan serves as a method used to articulate formal strategies that express the goals to be achieved, policies guiding the actions, and programs that set the plan into action for an organization (Starsia, 2017a). It establishes cohesion, balance, and control across the organization and allows the organization to prepare for the unknown (Starsia, 2017a). In an ever-changing environment, it is imperative that organizations review and adapt their strategic plan in order to assess the successes and areas for improvement in the organization.

18 Pages

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With changes in leadership and a rapidly expanding organization, it is critical that organizations analyze their current mission, industry, and competitive landscape in order to set out in a strategic direction that will result in future success.

This is a case study about one non-profit that experienced meteoric growth and set out to change the world. The question is: How to move forward? How to include the stakeholders in its expanding mission?

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This is a story of leadership and organizational change.

How does an institution plan for the growth and development of its programs? What are the roles of the leadership and stakeholders? What process should drive the analysis and decision making? How is risk assessed? How is the planning and potential for change communicated?

In multistakeholder organizations like universities and non-profits, these decisions require a steady and strategic leader capable of assessing the most impactful direction for its programs, and then how these high performers can remain part of the organization’s portfolio.

Increasingly, university athletics departments, the current institutional high performer by choice or circumstance, often finds itself in the realignment business as they strive to increase revenue and reputation. Here is one such story.

20 Pages

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