The rise and fall of strategic planning : reconceiving roles for planning, plans, planners / Henry Mintzberg
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- Mintzberg, Henry
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- New York : Free Press ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada, c1994
- xix, 458 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0029216052
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- Acknowledgments
- A Note to the Reader
- Introduction: The "Planning School" in Context
- 1 Planning and Strategy
- What Is Planning Anyway?
- Why Plan (According to Planners)?
- Jelinek's Case for Planning
- And What Is Strategy?
- Planners, Plans, and Planning
- A Plan for This Book
- 2 Models of the Strategic Planning Process
- The Basic Planning Model
- The Core "Design School" Model
- Premises of the Design School
- Premises of the Planning Literature
- The Initial Ansoff Model
- The Mainline Steiner Model
- Decomposing the Basic Model
- The Objectives-Setting Stage
- The External Audit Stage
- The Internal Audit Stage
- The Strategy Evaluation Stage
- The Strategy Operationalization Stage
- Scheduling the Whole Process
- A Missing Detail
- Sorting Out the Four Hierarchies: Objectives, Budgets, Strategies, Programs
- Hierarchy of Objectives
- Hierarchy of Budgets
- Hierarchy of Strategies
- Hierarchy of Programs
- The "Great Divide" of Planning
- Forms of Strategic Planning
- A. Conventional Strategic Planning
- B. "Strategic Planning" as a Numbers Game
- C. Capital Budgeting as Ad Hoc Control
- 3 Evidence on Planning
- Survey Evidence on "Does Planning Pay?"
- Anecdotal Evidence
- The General Electric FIFO Experience
- Some Deeper Evidence
- Sarrazin's Study of Exemplary Planning
- Gomer's Study of Planning Under Crisis
- Quinn's Findings on Planning Under "Logical
- Incrementalism"
- The McGill Research on "Tracking Strategies"
- Koch's Study of the "Facade" of French Government Planning
- Some Evidence on the PPBS Experience
- Some Evidence on Capital Budgeting
- Concluding the Deeper Evidence
- Planners' Responses to the Evidence
- Faith: "There is no problem"
- Salvation: "It's the process that counts"
- Elaboration: "Just you wait"
- Reversion: "Back to basics"
- Pitfalls: "Them not us"
- 4 Some Real Pitfalls of Planning
- Planning and Commitment
- Commitment at the Top
- Commitment Lower Down
- "Decentralized" Planning
- Planning and Freedom
- Commitment Versus Calculation
- Planning and Change
- The Inflexibility of Plans
- The Inflexibility of Planning
- Planned Change as Incremental
- Planned Change as Generic
- Planned Change as Short Term
- Flexible Planning: Wanting Things Both Ways
- Planning and Politics
- The Biases of Objectivity
- The Goals Implicit in Planning
- The Politics of Planning
- Politics over Planning
- Planning and Control
- Obsession with Control
- "Our age is turbulent, Chicken Little"
- Strategic Vision and Strategic Learning
- Illusion of Control?
- Planning as Public Relations
- 5 Fundamental Fallacies of Strategic Planning
- Some Basic Assumptions Behind Strategic Planning
- Missing Taylor's Message
- The Fallacy of Predetermination
- The Performance of Forecasting
- The Forecasting of Discontinuities
- Forecasting as Magic
- Forecasting as Extrapolation
- Forecasting and "Turbulence"
- The Dynamics of Strategy Formation
- Forecasting as Control (and Planning as Enactment)
- Scenarios Instead of Forecasts
- Contingency Planning Instead of Deterministic
- Planning
- The Fallacy of Detachment
- Seeing the Forest And the Trees
- The Soft Underbelly of Hard Data
- The Detachment of Planners from Strategy Making
- The Detachment of Managers Who Rely on Planning from Strategy Making
- Learning About Strengths and Weaknesses
- "Marketing Myopia" Myopia
- Attaching Formulation to Implementation
- Connecting Thinking and Acting
- The Fallacy of Formalization
- The Failure of Formalization
- Was Formalization Ever Even Tried?
- The Analytical Nature of Planning
- Intuition Distinguished
- Do the Hemispheres Have Minds of Their Own?
- Simon's Analytical View of Intuition
- Flipping Intuition Across to Analysis
- Planning on the Left Side and Managing on the Right
- The Image of Managing
- The Grand Fallacy
- 6 Planning, Plan, Planners
- Coupling Analysis and Intuition
- The Planning Dilemma
- Comparing Analysis and Intuition
- Analysis and Intuition in Strategy Making
- A Strategy for Planning
- "Soft" Analysis
- Role of Planning: Strategic Programming
- Step 1: Codifying the Strategy
- Step 2: Elaborating the Strategy
- Step 3: Converting the Elaborated Strategy
- Conditions of Strategic Programming
- First Role of Plans: Communication Media
- Second Role of Plans: Control Devices
- Strategic Control
- First Role of Planners: Finders of Strategy
- Logic in Action
- Desperately Seeking Strategies
- Unconventional Planners
- Second Role of Planners: Analysts
- Strategic Analysis for Managers
- External Strategic Analysis
- Internal Strategic Analysis and the Role of Simulation
- Scrutinization of Strategies
- Third Role of Planners: Catalysts
- Opening Up Strategic Thinking
- Role for Formalization
- The Formalization Edge
- Simons's Interactive Control
- Playing the Catalyst Role
- The Planner as Strategist
- A Plan for Planners
- A Planner for Each Side of the Brain
- Planners in Context
- Forms of Organizations
- Strategic Programming in the Machine Organization
- Right- and Left-Handed Planners in the Machine
- Organization
- Strategic Programming Under Other Conditions
- Strategic Analysis in the Professional Organization
- Planning and Analysis in the Adhocracy Organization
- Minimal Roles in the Entrepreneurial Organization
- Performance Control in the Diversified Organization
- Planning Under Politics and Culture
- Planning in Different Cultures
- References
- Index
- About the Author.
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- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-443) and index.
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