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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.

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An organization has the following components that can and should be designed: organization hierarchy, authority relationships, information and communication systems, and reward systems?

Key elements in Organization design include: 1) Work Specialization; 2) Departmentalization; 3) Chain of command; 4) Span of Control; 5) Centralization and Decentralization; and 6) Formalization.

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