Strategic planning : what every manager must know / George Albert Steiner

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Free Press Paperbacks, c1979Description: ix, 383 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 29311101
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HD 30.28 .S74 1979
Contents:
I. Nature and Importance of Strategic Planning -- 1. Strategic Management and Strategic Planning -- 2. What Is Strategic Planning? -- 3. Why Systematic Strategic Planning Pays Off -- II. Organizing for Strategic Planning -- 4. Organizing the Strategic Planning Process -- 5. The Chief Executive Officer and Strategic Planning -- 6. Overcoming Anti-planning Biases -- III. Key Considerations in Doing Planning -- 7. Alternative Planning Postures, Cognitive Styles, and Values -- 8. The Situation Audit -- 9. Developing Basic Business Purposes and Missions -- 10. Developing Long-Range Planning Objectives -- 11. Formulating Program Strategies -- 12. Medium-Range Functional Programming -- 13. Translating Strategic Plans into Current Decisions -- 14. Contingency Planning and Alternative Futures Explorations -- 15. The Executive View of Analytical Techniques for Planning -- IV. Implementing Plans -- 16. The Nature and Design of Control Systems -- 17. The Human Dimension in Implementation -- V. Evaluating and Reenergizing the System -- 18. Dangers to Avoid in Strategic Planning -- 19. Evaluating the Planning System and Maintaining a High Payoff -- VI. Applicability of Business Planning Experience in Other Areas -- 20. Personal Lifetime Planning -- 21. What the Private Sector Can Teach the Not-for-Profit Sector -- VII. Concluding Observations -- 22. The Current State of the Art and Future Trends.
Summary: This self-taught course in formal management planning presents information for effective organization, acquiring and using information, developing objectives, and translating strategic plans into current decisions.
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Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Annex Relegation Room Gen. Ed. - CBA GC HD 30.28 .S74 1979 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000005482

Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. Nature and Importance of Strategic Planning -- 1. Strategic Management and Strategic Planning -- 2. What Is Strategic Planning? -- 3. Why Systematic Strategic Planning Pays Off -- II. Organizing for Strategic Planning -- 4. Organizing the Strategic Planning Process -- 5. The Chief Executive Officer and Strategic Planning -- 6. Overcoming Anti-planning Biases -- III. Key Considerations in Doing Planning -- 7. Alternative Planning Postures, Cognitive Styles, and Values -- 8. The Situation Audit -- 9. Developing Basic Business Purposes and Missions -- 10. Developing Long-Range Planning Objectives -- 11. Formulating Program Strategies -- 12. Medium-Range Functional Programming -- 13. Translating Strategic Plans into Current Decisions -- 14. Contingency Planning and Alternative Futures Explorations -- 15. The Executive View of Analytical Techniques for Planning -- IV. Implementing Plans -- 16. The Nature and Design of Control Systems -- 17. The Human Dimension in Implementation -- V. Evaluating and Reenergizing the System -- 18. Dangers to Avoid in Strategic Planning -- 19. Evaluating the Planning System and Maintaining a High Payoff -- VI. Applicability of Business Planning Experience in Other Areas -- 20. Personal Lifetime Planning -- 21. What the Private Sector Can Teach the Not-for-Profit Sector -- VII. Concluding Observations -- 22. The Current State of the Art and Future Trends.

This self-taught course in formal management planning presents information for effective organization, acquiring and using information, developing objectives, and translating strategic plans into current decisions.

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