The success of any technology plan is measured by the achievement of its goals. In order to create a strategic plan, you must answer three questions in relation to your goal:
Where are you?
Where are you going?
How you will get there?
Through the use of assessments, you have a measurable baseline. This provides the answer to the first question. Once you know where you are, you will know how much work – and what kind of work – you need to achieve your goal. As noted in Health Economics, “The most appropriate starting point for developing guidance is to establish what is required for decision making. On the basis of these requirements, the methods and framework of analysis which can best meet these needs can then be identified.”1
Some might say that an assessment is too costly. The time and resources allocated would be too great. Others might question the validity of the information from some of these tools. It seems, however, if school districts were treated as their multimillion dollar organizational counterparts in the private sector, tools to determine viability and growth would not be questioned.
Without question, we must assess our current skills and infrastructure if we are to create strategic plans that will continue to improve our student outcomes and make best use of our infrastructure and resources. In order to measure our progress, we must continue to use different assessment tools and the data they provide. We are not in a position to maintain our technology and its use. We must constantly grow with the new developments and work to integrate them into our organizations.
1Claxton, K., Sculpher, M., McCabe, C., Briggs, A., Akehurst, R., Buxton, M., Brazier, J. and O'Hagan, T. (2005), Probabilistic sensitivity analysis for NICE technology assessment: not an optional extra. Health Economics, 14: 339–347. doi: 10.1002/hec.985
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