Write a critical evaluation of your learning outcome. In your response, consider: 1. Consider the content of this class as they relate to information management/IT and managerial decision making. 2. Base on the course content, discuss new skills you acquired from this class? How relevant are the new skills to your current and/or future profession? 3. How would you apply your new knowledge?

A management plan is a blueprint for the way your organization is run, both day-to-day and over the long term. It includes the standard methods for doing various things - - handling money, dealing with the actual work of the organization, addressing the way people in the organization do their jobs - - and the overall philosophical and intellectual framework in which these methods operate.

The management plan for your particular organization depends on a number of factors:

What is the organization trying to accomplish? A neighborhood initiative that exists to achieve a single goal - - keep a historic building from being torn down, preserve a piece of open space, build a playground - - has very different management needs than, say, a health clinic that plans to serve the community for years. Issues that are both important and ongoing for the clinic (staff pay and benefits, for instance) may simply not exist for the other organization.

What actually needs to get done day-to-day to keep the organization running? The actual tasks that keep the organization alive, maintain its standing with funders and the community, and allow it to accomplish its goals, need to be carried out efficiently and on time. Who's responsible for that, how many people will it take, and what are the mechanisms that will allow it to happen for your particular organization?

What degree of freedom do people at all levels of the organization need in order to do their jobs well? If nothing can get done without going through several layers of management, the organization isn't going to be very effective.

What are the resources available for carrying out a management plan? How many administrators could the organization support, given its finances? If the answer is one (or one part-time), your management plan will look very different than it would if the answer were three.