Vision & Organisational Management

Management vision is not as simple to produce as might be thought. At the first stage, a series of iterations with the management take place, aimed at the examination of the way it assesses the organisational capabilities, capacities, performance and external environment. Here also available sources of income are analysed so as to establish organisation’s operational basis in terms of subsidies, market situation, organisational SWOT and other relevant factors. This vision can now be modified and refined with the strategic plan which has been drawn as a result of the performance analyses done earlier. The refined vision can thus become coherent and consistent with the organisational reality, potentials, as the organisational realistic action plan. Here we set, together with the management and in conjunction with its vision, the overall organisational structural and functional needs and directions as well as the necessary mechanisms that would enable the organisation to materialise its prescribed goals and objectives, academically, scientifically, commercially and publicly. The organisational policies can thus be put into practice in order to achieve the overall goal of scientific excellence and the specific objectives that would actually bring about the improvement of the organisation in its international ranking and exposure. The structures set pertain to staff management, teaching management, marketing of academic programmes and professional services, promotion of the organisation’s participation in internationally funded projects and other non-budgetary funding, etc. EuCRF works here with the management to produce a thorough and all-inclusive Policy Plan and action items derived from it.