Iowa Finance Authority, Strategic Plan, 2003

This report outlines the strategic plan for Iowa Finance Authority, goals and mission.

Iowa Law Enforcement Academy, Strategic Plan, 2007

This report outlines the strategic plan for Iowa Law Enforcement Academy, goals and mission.

Iowa Veterans Home, Strategic Plan, 2007-2010

This report outlines the strategic plan for Iowa Veterans Home, goals and mission.

Iowa Lottery, Strategic Plan, 2007-2010

This report outlines the strategic plan for Iowa Lottery, goals and mission.

Governor's Office of Drug Control Policy, Strategic Plan, 2003-2008

This report outlines the strategic plan for Governor's Office of Drug Control Policy, goals and mission.

Strategic Plan of the Board of Regents, Strategic Plan, 2004-2009

This report outlines the strategic plan for Strategic Plan of the Board of Regents, goals and mission.

Iowa Workforce Development, Strategic Plan, 2008-2011

This report outlines the strategic plan for Iowa Workforce Development, goals and mission.

Deaf Services Commission of Iowa, Strategic Plan, 2008-2011

This report outlines the strategic plan for Deaf Services Commission of Iowa, goals and mission.

The growth and diffusion of knowlegde and the theory of the firm

We analyze the implications of a market imperfection related to the inability to establish intellectual property rights, that we label {\it unverifiable communication}. Employees are able to collude with external parties selling ``knowledge capital'' of the firm. The firm organizer engages in strategic interaction simultaneously with employees and competitors, as she introduces endogenous transaction costs in the market for information between those agents. Incentive schemes and communication costs are the key strategic variables used by the firm to induce frictions in collusive markets. Unverifiable communication introduces severe allocative distortions, both at internal product development and at intended sale of information (technology transfer). We derive implications of the model for observable decisions like characteristics of the employment relationship (full employment, incompatibility with other jobs), firms' preferences over cluster characteristics for location decisions, optimal size at entry, in--house development vs sale strategies for innovations and industry evolution.

Iowa Department of Transportation, Strategic Plan, 2008-2012,[revised, final], 2008

This report outlines the strategic plan for Department of Transportation, goals and mission.

Managing by values in the next milenium: Cultural redesign for strategic organizational change

The system of beliefs and values, that shaped the model for management and organizations during the 20th century, is just not good enough today. In order to keep a business functioning well and competing successfully in markets that are increasingly more global, complex, professionally demanding, constantly changing and oriented towards quality and customer satisfaction a new model is needed. In this paper, we will propose that both Management by Instructions (MBI) and Management by Objectives (MBO) today give notoriously inadequate results. By contrast, description of a new approach labeled: Management by Values (MBV), seem to be emerging as a strategic leadership tool. The paper outlines this approach and discusses the implementation of MBV as a tool to redesign culture in organizations and prepare them for the next millenium.

State Library of Iowa Strategic Plan 2008-2011, October 24, 2008

Mission: The State Library advocates for Iowa libraries & promotes excellence & innovation in library services in order to provide statewide access to information for all Iowans.