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This website focuses on a wide variety of topics related to organization and individual planning situations. The primary focus is business planning.

Planning is an anticipatory decision making process that involves situation analysis, forecasting outcomes and events, evaluating alternative courses of action, anticipating consequences and considering implementation issues and contingencies. Planning often begins with asking one or more questions, for example: What if ...? Could we ...? Do we ...? Is it possible...? How should we respond ...? How can we ...? Is it feasible to ...?

In general, planning is a proactive process that is intended to help individuals, groups and organizations achieve performance objectives.

Featured Glossary Term

Horizontal integration strategies focus on acquiring firms in current markets or in new markets. A horizontal integration strategy can support a concentrated growth or a market development strategy.

Featured Planning Tip

In a competitive or combat setting, deception and misdirection can help gain the advantage of surprise in executing actions. Deceiving involves taking actions that encourage an opponent to believe that which is not true and which advantages your position. Mislead is a synonym which suggests an approach to take.

"All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near. Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him." - Sun Tzu

"Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt." - Sun Tzu

"Everything which the enemy least expects will succeed the best." - Frederick the Great

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