The main aim of the study is to assess the success in performance of the KwaZulu-Natal
(KZN) Provincial Governmentâs strategic management of integrated development
planning as was expected by the Constitution and subsequent developmental policies,
legislation, programmes and projects from 1994 to 2006.
The literature review indicated that strategic management consists of three phases,
namely planning, implementation and control, each phase with its own sub-steps. These
elements formed the basis for the development of a Strategic Management Model
represented by the following âKeyâ:
KEY TO STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT MODEL
Phase Step Activity and Evaluation Criteria
1 Initiate and agree on strategic management process
2 Clarify organisational mandates
3 Identify strategic issues facing the organisation
4 Formulate vision and goals
5 Undertake SWOT analysis: determine internal strengths and weaknesses,
external opportunities and threats
Planning
6 Formulate and adopt strategies to address strategic issues
7 Planning of plan Implementation implementation
8 Phased implementation
9 Monitoring
10 Evaluation
Control
11 Review
The Model is then applied to evaluate the strategic management of two KZN Provincial
wide programmes, namely the KZN Provincial Growth and Development Strategy
(PGDS) from 1994 to 2000, and KZN municipal integrated development planning from
2000 to 2006, both of which aim to substantiate the following four hypotheses:
(1) The KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Governmentâs execution of the strategic
management of integrated development planning in KZN to advance development
in KZN was successful;
(2) The KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government undertook successfully an initiative
to improve alignment and capacitating of Provincial Departments and Local
Government for them to be able to undertake integrated development planning in
a sustainable manner;
(3) The Strategic Management Model for the management of integrated development
planning set out in the study is a handy tool could be presented in a narrative
format and/or in a matrix or table format, depending on the particular situation or
management preferences; and
(4) The application of the Strategic Management Model in KZN confirms issues and
trends highlighted in the literature review of the strategic management of
integrated development planning. The advancement of international theoretical thought on strategic management is also
addressed. Several lessons learnt from the strategic management of integrated
development planning in KZN are discussed. The study concluded by making several
recommendations to improve KZNâs performance in the field of the strategic
management of integrated development planning.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:ufs/oai:etd.uovs.ac.za:etd-07292008-100008 |
| Date | 29 July 2008 |
| Creators | Theron, Jan Hendrik |
| Contributors | Mr NP Fox, Prof JJ Steyn |
| Publisher | University of the Free State |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | en-uk |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.uovs.ac.za//theses/available/etd-07292008-100008/restricted/ |
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