Planning

to be reliable to its users. These external advisors may include people like “the customers or clients, suppliers, experts of scenario planning, external scenario consultants and analysts. External advisors ensure that everyone involved with the organisation is accounted for in the scenario planning process. They also ensure that the goal of the scenario planning process is achieved, that is to consider a range of possible alternative futures and to analyse and manipulate how the organisation…

Strategic planning is a process where a company can define its purpose and direction, but also it helps a company define their goals and objectives for the entire company (Sexton & Van Auken, 1985). I truly believe that strategic planning is the first team in developing a successful risk management system. The entire company should understand where the company is and where…

understanding of the realities of response through drills, tabletop exercises, functional exercise, and full-scale exercise. By engaging in these activities, one is able to identify any shortfalls or failures that may exist in planning, training, organization, or equipment (pp. 105). The planning cycle would not be complete without evaluating its procedures and taking corrective measures for future actions. The plans, equipment, and trained staff are examined in an imaginary scenario, and any…

Planning theory developed from a range of disciplines. It borrows ideas from economics, sociology, political science, psychology and geography. From these disciplines, planning has adopted ideas which are applied to the planning process to arrive at normative prescriptions of how planning is to be done. According to Alexander, planning practice needs a theory of what planning is or should be, and theory provides scientific explanation and description of facts. Planning used to be viewed as an…

Excessive Planning in the Urban Future: Obstacles to Urban Utopia The utopian-style planning of the urban future has embraced principle, and abandoned practicality. In order to form utopian cities, the planners of urban areas like Brasília and Delhi proposed detailed urban plans that have mostly ignored market factors in favor of heightened urban regulations. In the case of Brasília, these regulations, designed to further the city’s utopian conception, have actually had the opposite effect.…

Introduction The purpose of this article is to establish that the most effective way a CIO to accomplish a strategy for strategic planning is a “bottom up” approach. However, many organizations of today underestimate this operational consideration and not support this theory. The article will show why this is problematic for the overall good of the organization. Furthermore, this document will develop the concept that even though many organizations use a top down approach –this concept often…

Understanding the Strategic Planning Process The relationships between a mission, vision, strategic goals, objectives and action plans An organization’s mission statement serves to define why the company exists and its purpose to the public and the employees (Dunn, 2010). The mission statement declares how the organization’s vision will be accomplished, and the vision statement paints the picture of what and where the company wants to be (Hofstrand, 2009). The strategic goals are specific…

What is contingency planning and business continuity and why does the organization need it? Contingency planning and business continuity is the organization attempting to take control of an uncontrollable and unexpected situation. It is building and improving the organizations ability to respond and restore the organization functions and services when an event occurs. It will aid the organization in determining critical functions and services along with all the dependencies that support those…

Strategic planning and implementation is used in healthcare systems to define and improve weakness identified in a healthcare setting by analyzing. These analyses are very through to find the successful departments or locations to weakness. Additionally the analysis will take into account the consumer and employee feedback to ratify a problem. Now once an area or project requires improvement this will take onto the next level of identifying the issues and improving. The improvement is major…

"Strategic planning is a disciplined effort to produce fundamental decisions shaping the nature and direction of governmental activities within constitutional bounds" (Olsen and Eadie 1982). The purpose of this paper is to describe in detail the process of creating and implementing a strategic plan in the public sector (Dougherty County School System). The steps and approaches taken for strategic planning in a public sector assists organizations with the constant changes to their environments.…