Describes a simplified model of higher education and its possible applications in long range planning for educational systems. (Author)

The cited research very clearly indicates that the top management of any profit-seeking organization is delinquent or grossly negligent if it does not engage in fully integrated long-range planning--at least this would seem to be true in the ordinary case. (Author)

Reports on the experience of the Food and Drug Administration from the initiation of a new planning system in 1972 up to 1975. (Available from Subscriptions Manager, Pergamon Press Ltd., Headington Hill Hall, Oxford OX3 OBW, England; $60.00 annually.) (Author)

Analyzes planning difficulties in the university environment and suggests four stages of organization through which universities are likely to pass in developing planning systems. (Author)

A forecasting method using an estimate of ultimate level of adoption and expected time scale. (RA)

The bottom-up approach to long-range goal-setting in firms has a place, especially under certain conditions of diversity and under some management styles. However, trends to more top-down approaches in companies of increased size and with experience with planning can be observed when account is taken of other more significant variables. (Author/WM)

The need for developing and using systematic planning and reorganization as management tools. (Author)

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The work on which this article is based has been designed to identify only the most significant facets of future research and development and planning in terms of their potential impact on the economic aspect of society. (Author)

Reports on the techniques and approaches to planning actually being used by corporate strategists. Provides information concerning the survey and data on which this article is based, the planning process in approximately 400 business firms, and the use of two planning tools -- outside consultants and computers/mathematical models. (Author/WM)

The major organizational and social problems of our time do not lend themselves to the reductionism of traditional analytical and disciplinary approaches. They must be attacked holistically, with a comprehensive systems approach. The effective study of large-scale social systems requires the synthesis of science with the professions that use it.…

The corporate planner must be a motivator and an agent of change. The most elaborate planning system is useless if the people who will have to supply the necessary data and who should cooperate to attain the objectives are not fully motivated. In short, the corporate planner is required to be a good politician. (Author)

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Strategic management is concerned with determining the long-term goals of an enterprise and deciding on the most appropriate course of action to achieve them. Strategic planning can revive the entrepreneurial characteristics of a business whose survival otherwise could be threatened. (Author/WM)