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CJA/475
Forecasting and Strategic Planning

Course level: Upper Division

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3 credits

Total credits

5 weeks

Course length

Take this course on its own, or as part of a degree or certificate program.

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This course provides pre- or in-service administrators/managers the knowledge, skills and tools necessary to consider the long-term mission and direction of various criminal justice agencies and to build strategy and operations from both internal and external stakeholders to achieve identified mission goals. Students consider strategic planning as a process and method for implementing effective strategic management. Students receive a high-level overview of data collection and analysis methods for strategic planning that provide the ability to develop long-term solutions to continually evolving organizational challenges. Students explore long-term strategic management options, and how to use that information in planning, decision making, and developing strategies for more efficient organizational management of operations and programs.

Please Note: Attendance and participation are mandatory in all University courses, and specific requirements may differ by course. If attendance requirements are not met, a student may be removed from the course. Please review the Course Attendance Policy in the Catalog for more information.

University of Phoenix reserves the right to modify courses. While widely available, not all programs are available to residents of all states. Please check with a University Enrollment Representative.

Earn these career-relevant skills in weeks, not years.

  • Examine current law enforcement issues and their potential for forecasting analysis.
  • Determine relevant stakeholders in strategic planning.
  • Investigate strategies for assessing and scanning a criminal justice agency mission, vision and goals.
  • Explore public safety issues related to forecasted trends.

  • Determine problematic areas within the criminal justice field.
  • Investigate approaches to formulating strategies for facilitating change.
  • Utilize Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats (SWOT) analysis to drive strategy formulation.
  • Outline a strategic plan.

  • Investigate databases for criminal justice analysis.
  • Analyze data collection approaches.
  • Evaluate the use of futures (predictions) in strategic planning.
  • Determine limitations relevant to statistical methodologies.

  • Examine strategic leadership practices.
  • Compare applied organizational theory and practices to strategic management applications.
  • Assess the influence of project stakeholders and detractors.

  • Develop strategies for measuring plan implementation.
  • Evaluate long-term strategic management options through process application scans.
  • Examine a gap analysis between the desired results and actual results.
  • Create a corrective action plan.

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