Assignment: All About You: Chapter 5-Planning
Assignment: All About You: Chapter 5-Planning
Assignment: All About You: Chapter 5-Planning
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○ There are lots of reasons to plan
§ Time
§ Check your progress
§ Allows you to coordinate activities
§ Helps you think ahead
§ Uncertainty
○ Planning creates rigidity
○ 4 Group of planners
§ Defenders-
□ Do what we best and avoid other options.
§ Prospectors- coming up with new products in a
new market
□ We create our own opportunities.
§ Analyzers- Let other people dive in to the pool, le
other people take that risk, we will follow whoever
is in the market.
§ Reactors- We will wait till a major catastrophe
before we do something
○ 3 kinds of problems of Adaptive cycle concept
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Chapters in the exam:
Chapter 4 Global Management
Chapter 5 Planning
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§ Reactors- We will wait till a major catastrophe
before we do something
○ 3 kinds of problems of Adaptive cycle concept
§ Entrepreneur- Looking a new products new marke
to keep everything fresh,
§ Engineering-
§ Administrative- Establish roles relationships and
processes.
• Fundamentals of planning
○ Mission Statement- What is the reason this
organization exists? The purpose of the organization.
○ Vision Statement- What do we want to become? Wher
do we want to go? What is the vision. What we want
to become.
○ Planning is how you get where you want to go and
what you want to be.
○ 3 types of planning
§ Strategic- Planning to the next 1-5 years, Long ter
goals.
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§ Strategic- Planning to the next 1-5 years, Long ter
goals.
□ Upper Managers
§ Tactical- usually a year to 18 months out, Looks at
different work units and resources in the next 2
years.
□ Middle Managers
§ Operational planning- accomplishing tasks one or
two weeks out.
□ Lower level Managers
○ Standing plan- a plan that is developed for activities
that happen repeatedly.
○ Single use plan- something comes up that prevents th
standing plan to occur.
• Planning has to do with goals, you can reach this goals by
○ Policy-
○ Procedure- a response to problems.
○ Rule-
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○ Procedure- a response to problems.
○ Rule-
• Policies, procedures, and Rules create democracy.
• Single us planning can be one of two things:
○ Program- Encorages a
○ Project- only
• Goal setting-