THE NEEDS OF STRATEGIC PLANNING IN EDUCATION: A PROCEEDING PAPER

Abstract

Abstract: The tightening of competition in the world of education, many educational institutions make use of technology as a support to improve their performance. The key to the success of educational institutions is the application of information systems for the processing of institutional data quickly and accurately. Strategic management is the implementation of planning, monitoring, analysis, and evaluation that is carried out continuously from all the needs required by the organization in an effort to achieve its goals. Changes that occur quickly and spontaneously in the organizational environment will require organizations that are able to continue to evaluate strategies. The implementation of strategic management helps the organization to know the current state of the organization, then formulate a strategy, disseminate it and analyze the effectiveness of the applied management strategy. This research aims to explain the need for the implementation of strategy management in aligning strategic planning in education. There are studies that emphasize improving the quality of education as one of the purposes of having strategic planning. The research is mainly focused on Indonesia's primary education. This paper discusses how schools in Indonesia themselves plan their strategic planning which starts from the vision and mission followed by the implementation stage. This paper comprehensively describes the type of strategic planning put in place by the school through carrying out an annual work plan in line with their vision and mission, carrying out internal and external audits, setting long-term goals, then framing, considering and selecting strategies before proceeding with implementation. using curriculum planning, educational staff development, student affairs development and guidance, financial planning, public relations planning, and infrastructure planning to measure and evaluate school performance. This research uses a qualitative method by involving ten literary papers selected from various sources that are mostly based on Google Scholar where literary papers will come from different academic institutes from various countries. In obtaining research data, researchers collect, analyze, organize, sources from articles, books, previous research on the implementation of strategy management in the field of education. Thus, the review of this paper will look from a broad global perspective from various national cases for example.