Scenerio Planning, an approach that encourages broad strategic thinking rather than detailed tactical solutions, is one way of handling the ultimate 'unpredictaibility' of things. The process of reviewing wildly divergent circumstances enables an executive team (sometimes) to see the deepest flaws in corporate positioning or assumption. (Read more)

Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. Various business analysis techniques can be used in strategic planning, including SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats ) and PEST analysis (Political, Economic, Social, and Technological analysis) or STEER analysis involving Socio-cultural, Technological, Economic, Ecological, and Regulatory factors. (Wikipedia)

Planning
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Setting Goals and Planning is a universal behavior at the beginning of the year. Take a few minutes and create your plan to plan. A professional Recruiter holds one of the most complex jobs in the entire organization. With limited training, the Recruiter (read more)

Planning II
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So, in the midst of all of that pressure to perform, how do you go about squeezing the time in for planning? Given heroic eighteen hour days of falling behind to make up for resource shortages, how do you get one very big task added to the work plate? With all that you are trying to do, how can the time for planning be acquired? (read more)