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METU Northern Cyprus Campus

STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS

MARCH 29th 2008 SWOT ANALYSIS WORKSHOP

METU-NCC completed its SWOT analysis, another step of the strategic planning process, on March 29, 2008.

The METU-NCC Strategic Planning Process, whose aim is to determine the development directions of the campus and application plans for the period between 2008 – 2013, has been started. In the first step of this process, which is “Stakeholder Analysis”, the aim was to determine to what extent METU NCC has realized its “Visions” and the related “Performance Areas” and to determine the relative priority of the activities planned for the period between 2008-2013, by inquiring among various stakeholder groups.  In that step of the process, an evaluation of data collected from 587 stakeholders from different groups through a questionnaire aiming at validating METU-NCC’s vision statement has been carried out. After that step, on March 29, 2008, with the contribution of 43 stakeholders chosen from different stakeholder groups, a SWOT analysis workshop was done at METU NCC. At the end of this extremely beneficial 6-hour-workshop, the participants, considering internal and external factors, provided us with very important input for the development of strategies to get benefited from the fields where we are currently strong and the existing opportunities at maximum level, and to minimize the effects of possible threats and the fields which are open to improvement. In addition to this, the relationship between METU-NCC Vision and SWOT Analysis was inquired. In the next step, with a small group of experts, the connections among the items in the field of broad horizon will be examined and if there are any, the reason-result relationship among them will be put forward. At the end of all these, the actions and primary objectives necessary to reach the ultimate goals will be tried to be determined.