What issues do distance education (DE) leaders believe will influence the future of DE? What are their colleges’ DE strategies? This qualitative study compares DE strategic thinking and strategic choices at three community colleges. Two propositions are investigated: (1) each college’s DE leaders use common strategic mental models (ways of thinking about key environmental issues and relationshi...

—A hierarchical planning model was developed based on the needs of managers of the Menominee Tribal Forest in Wisconsin. The model utilizes a non-integer Model I goal programming formulation at the strategic level, and an integer Model II goal programming formulation at the tactical planning level. The strategic model is used first, to set general management direction for 150 years or more. The...

The power of information technology to support strategic management at the executive level may currently be underutilised. A recently developed strategic management system incorporating extensive domain knowledge can be integrated with advanced data utilisation technology to form a comprehensive strategic management architecture. Specifically, we propose an information architecture that exploit...