Thursday, November 30, 2006

Notes: Planning School

Notes: Planning School

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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