Originator: Igor Ansoff
book: Corporate Strategy (1965)
Idiom: “A stitch in time saves nine.”
The planning school grew out of the growth in business strategic planning research of the 1970s. The idea of process of strategy became important to managers as a modern and progressive step to business management. It encouraged the growth of formal procedures, practices, and analysis methods with trained planners with close contact with CEOs.
Basic Model
1. Objectives Setting
2. External Audit
3. Internal Audit
4. Strategy Evaluation
5. Strategy Operationalization
6. Scheduling Entire Process
Intended Precepts
1. Strategies are consciously formed and formalized plans, with steps, checklists, and techniques.
2. CEO is responsible only in principle while execution of plans responsibility of staff planners.
3. Strategies are revealed as complete and explicit to be implemented according close attention to schedules and details.
Links
Learning to Plan and Planning to Learn
http://www.jstor.org/view/01432095/sp030034/03x0256v/0
Lecture notes from Helsinki University of Technology
http://www.tuta.hut.fi/studies/Courses_and_schedules/Isib/TU-91.201/JussiAutere_introduction.pdf
Conceptualizing and Integrated Planning System
http://www.well.com/~tjcher/articles/Chermack(2005)PlanningSystem.pdf
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