Foster Business Library Databases:

The Foster Business Library offers an extensive collection of over fifty databases on its homepage; see under Databases. For a complete list of Foster databases, see the List of All Business Databases. Access to these databases from off campus requires that you first go to the Off-Campus Access button, in the upper right of all library webpages. These resources may not be accessed from off campus except by those with a valid UW Net ID and password. For more information on Foster business databases, click Databases, A-Z. For information on which Foster business databases to use, see the Database Index. For information on accessing Foster databases from off campus, see Database Access. For guidelines on responsible database usage, see Database Usage.
• Dissertation Abstracts:   This database provides indexing and abstracts for doctoral dissertations and masters theses from over 1,000 Universities and Colleges in the U.S. from 1861 to the present. The citations to dissertations are long and 24-page previews of the dissertations are available online for free.

  A search in this database for dissertations with Strategic Planning in their title produced a list of more than 480 theses and dissertations.

• Conference Board Business Knowledge Research:   This searchable database of full-text research reports, published by the Conference Board, is focused on major issues in business and economics.

  A search for Strategic Planning produced a list of 31 documents.

Web Resources:

Unlike library databases, Web resources are available wherever you have web access; they do not require that you access them via the Off-Campus Access button, in the upper right of all library webpages. When using web resources, be sure to evaluate the credibility of these resources. For a subject index to web resources, see Business Resources on the Web on the Foster Business Library homepage.
• Strategic Planning:   This guide, by the business librarian at Drexel University, lists strategic planning guides and handbooks, how to research a company, anatomy of a strategic plan, and more.

• American Productivity and Quality Center:   This organization was founded in 1977 and "is a member-based nonprofit serving approximately 500 organizations around the world in all sectors of business, education, and government." It "helps organizations adapt to rapidly changing environments, build new and better ways to work, and succeed in a competitive marketplace." See their Strategic Planning materials.

• Free Management Library:   This site offers annotated links and information on the web on 675 management topics in 69 categories, from advertising to volunteers. See Strategic Planning.

• Strategic Planning Resources:   This website, provided by a strategic planning firm, offers eighteen short essays on strategic planning fundamentals, the strategic planning process, and elements of the strategic plan.

• Center for Simplified Strategic Planning:   This center is actually a consulting firm that specializes in strategic planning services for small to mid-sized organizations. See their Tools & Resources and Articles Archive.

• Business Updates:   According to Robert Berkman, "This portal collects timely headlines from online news sites and a selection of blogs via the use of RSS feed technology. Business Updates currently provides news headlines on more than a dozen popular, narrowly defined business topics as well as news about and from 15 large corporations." Among the topics covered is Strategic Analysis and Planning.

• Wikipedia:   This free online user-created and maintained encyclopedia can be a good starting point for an orientation to a topic. See their entry for Strategic Planning .

Foster Business Library Reference Collection:

The Foster Business Library Reference Collection consists of business handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other quick reference tools. It is located behind the Reference Desk in Foster, arranged by call number. Reference materials cannot be checked out; they may only be used in the library.
• The Blackwell encyclopedic dictionary of organizational behavior.
  This one-volume offers 500 essays (500 to 1,000 words in length) from 180 authorities on current knowledge and thinking about the key concepts of organizational behavior.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD30.15 .B455 1995 v. 6

  See Strategic Planning on pages 252 to 256.

• The encyclopedia of management.
  This one-volume covers 348 management topics, arranged alphabetically from Activity-Based Costing to Zero-Sum Game.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD30.15 E49 2000.

  See Strategic Planning Failures on pages 875 to 880 and Strategic Planning Tools on pages 880 to 884.

• The dictionary of strategy.
  This paperback provides definitions of terms used in strategic management.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD30.28 .K454 2004.

• Business: the ultimate resource.
  This 2,200-page single volume is "designed to offer a wide range of insights, information, and practical guidance on every aspect of management" via 2.5 million words of text from 200 contributors, with 700 illustrations and 150 maps, in seven major sections including best practice, a management library, business thinkers and management giants, a business dictionary, a world business almanac, and a guide to business sources.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD38.15 .B878 2002.

  See the Strategic Planning Checklist on pages 484 to 485, and the review of the book, the Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning, on page 949.

Foster Business Library Books:

The Foster Business Library maintains a collection of over 70,000 books on all business topics. To search for materials on all three campuses of the University of Washington, go to the UW Libraries Catalog, in the upper left corner of the Foster Business Library homepage. Search by keyword, title, author, series, etc.

To limit the results of your search just to materials in the Foster Business Library collection, use the Modify or Limit options at the top of the search results and change the library location to Foster Business Library. Availablity is indicated on the right of each online catalog record. First, note in which collection, within Foster, your materials are in, since the library has ten different Collections, each in a different location and often with differing arrangements. "Available" indicates that the book should be on the shelves under that call number and available for you to check out. "Due" and a date indicates that the book is already checked out to someone and is due back on the date indicated; you can have the "Request/Place Hold" feature to recall the book for your use.

If the material you want is not in the collections of the University of Washington, you can use the "Search Summit" feature to repeat your search in the combined holdings of over thirty cooperating libraries in Washington and Oregon. Use the "Request This Item" feature in Summit to have books in those library sent here to Foster for you to check out.

The Foster general stacks collection is located south of the main part of the Foster Business Library, through the two pass-throughs into the basement of Balmer. The arrangement is by call number, from A (at the east end, near the Copy Center) to Z (at the far west end).

A subject search for Strategic Planning produced a list of more than 900 records in the UW Libraries, with over 470 records in the Foster Business Library, including:

• Value-driven channel strategy: extending the lean approach   (2006)
• The new strategic thinking: pure & simple   (2006)
• Hunter or hunted?: technology, innovation, and competitive strategy   (2006)
• Big winners and big losers: the 4 secrets of long term business success and failure   (2006)
• Operations, strategy, and technology: pursuing the competitive edge   (2005)
• Strategic management: competitiveness and globalization cases   (2005)
• Strategic management: creating value in a turbulent world   (2005)
• Strategic thinking: a four piece puzzle   (2004)
• Strategic planning for success: aligning people, performance, and payoffs   (2003)
• Connecting the dots: aligning projects with objectives in unpredictable times   (2003)
• Cases in contemporary strategy analysis   (2003)
• Mastering strategy: insights from the world's greatest leaders and thinkers   (2003)
• The rise and fall of strategic planning: reconceiving roles for planning, plans, planners   (1994)
• If your strategy is so terrific, how come it doesn't work?   (1990)

A keyword search for Strategic Planning, limited to the Foster Business Library, retrieved over 400 records, searching for this term not only as a subject but in titles, subtitles, and notes.

Other relevant subjects include:

• Business Planning   (In the Foster Business Library)
• Corporations--Growth   (In the Foster Business Library)
• Industrial Management   (In the Foster Business Library)
• Organizational Change--Management   (In the Foster Business Library)

In addition to the 800 journals in the Foster Business Library Periodicals Collection, the Foster Business Library offers access to over 100 million full text articles in over 10,000 periodicals through its full text article databases such as EBSCO Business Source Premier, Factiva, LexisNexis Academic, and ProQuest Databases. These article databases may be found on the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Databases.

All four of these databases are available from any computer on the campus network as well as from home (via the UW Connectivity Kit or the Libraries' Off-Campus Access link, using your UW Net ID and password). The easiest of these databases to use is ProQuest Databases. For more information about accessing Foster Business Library databases from off campus, see Database Access. For more information about business databases, see the research guide entitled Databases, A to Z.

• ProQuest Databases:

  This database--actually, a family of over two dozen databases--offers full text articles for over 10,000 publications, including scholarly journals, magazines, trade and industry periodicals, newspapers, and reports on a very wide range of topics. To find articles on specific topics, search by word or phrase by keying your search phrase into the search box--or search for your topic in the Topic Guide. Article full text is often available in several formats, including text, text plus graphics, and PDF. This database also offers a very useful subject structure, to narrow search results, as well as article citation information.

  Your search terms will be highlighted in red in each article. For tips on searching this database, see About ProQuest Databases.

  A search, in all databases, for SUB(Strategic planning), produced over 86,000 articles, including almost 11,000 in scholarly journals. This subject, to be found in the Topic Guide, can also be narrowed with over 500 related terms, from Accounting Firms to Year 2000. A sampling of such terms includes:

  SUB(Strategic Planning) and SUB(Benchmarks), over 240 articles;
  SUB(Strategic Planning) and SUB(Best Practice), over 60 articles;
  SUB(Strategic Planning) and SUB(Building Construction), over 80 articles;
  SUB(Strategic Planning) and SUB(Case Studies), over 9,500 articles; and
  SUB(Strategic Planning) and SUB(Effectiveness), over 400 articles.

  Examples of articles from these searches include:

  • "IS Strategic Planning for Operational Efficiency"   (Information Systems Management. Boston: Summer 2007. Vol. 24, Iss. 3;  pg. 247, 18 pgs)
  • "New Boss Aims to Apply Some 7-Eleven Tactics to Blockbuster"   (New York Times. (Late Edition (East Coast)). New York, N.Y.: Jul 17, 2007.  pg. C.3)
  • "How to Identify and Select Lean Six Sigma Projects"   (Quality Progress. Milwaukee: Jul 2007. Vol. 40, Iss. 7;  pg. 58, 3 pgs)
  • "Reduced Speed -- Toyota's New U.S. Plan"   (Wall Street Journal. (Eastern edition). New York, N.Y.: Jun 20, 2007.  pg. A.1)
  • "Implementing a Business Strategy"   (USA Today. New York: May 2007. Vol. 135, Iss. 2744;  pg. 59, 3 pgs)
  • "Strategy-making: What Works is What Fits"   (European Business Forum. London: Spring 2007. , Iss. 28;  pg. 32, 6 pgs)

The Foster Business Library Reference Desk is staffed nearly all the hours that the library is open. The staff at the desk will be happy to help you find research tools on business law (or any other subject). For e-mail questions, direct your query to balib@u.washington.edu. For assistance by telephone, dial (206) 543-8012 during library hours.

See also the Foster Business Library's Business & Economics FAQ, and, in particular, the section for Management.

For research guides on a wide variety of industries, products, companies, issues and topics, see the Team Librarian Consultation archives.

• Team Consultation Archives (arranged by class or program)
• Team Consultation Archives (arranged by industry)
• Team Consultation Archives (arranged by title of assignment)
• Team Consultation Archives (arranged by academic quarter)
• Index to all Team Consultations and Research Guides