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Assessing the extent of the application of strategic thinking in a local sphere of government

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Ramodula, Thabo
Proches, Cecile N. Gerwel
Munapo, Elias

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This study assessed the extent of the application of strategic thinking in a Metropolitan Municipality in South Africa. It was aimed at initiating an inquiry into the relevance of strategic thinking to local governance: its concept and theoretical orientation in the systems approach paradigm and/or science of complexity. The study adopted a qualitative methodology and gave primacy to the key role-players in the Integrated Development Plan (IDP) process which was treated as equivalent to a strategy-making process. The participants interviewed included senior staff members, ward councillors and ward committee members because of their strategic positions to influence the current and future strategic decision-making as well in determining how to improve it.

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Ramodula, T. et al. 2017. Assessing the extent of the application of strategic thinking in a local sphere of government. Research Journal of Applied Sciences, 12(5–6):330–339. [http://dx.doi.org/10.3923/rjasci.2017.330.339]

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