The Snowmass Institute for Advanced Management Studies' workshops on "Achieving Excellence through Strategic Planning" are designed to assist college personnel in developing a strategic approach to planning and managing their department, division, college/school, institution, or system. Participants in the workshop's first track: (1) conducted an audit of their institutions' internal environment and institutional culture to determine strengths and weaknesses in the mission statement, goals and objectives, governance structure, programs, faculty, finances, facilities, and planning; (2) assessed their institutions' external environment with respect to demographic characteristics, social indicators, political change, technological advances, and workplace changes to determine opportunities and weaknesses; and (3) select strategic options (e.g., directing resources toward higher quality, public service, new student clientele, or research; or retrenchment and/or reduction in scale) and tactical alternatives. The second track of the workshop made extensive use of case studies to examine the planning process. Participants could elect to follow either track or mix sessions from both. Topics, such as outcomes assessment, institutional effectiveness, linking accreditation and strategic planning, grantsmanship/resources development, and scenario development were considered in special sessions. Eight figures display various analytical forms, models and inventories pertaining to the workshops, and two case studies of strategic planning are appended. (EJV)