Planning is a process of inquiry. Inquiry can be enhanced if different views-of-the-world are used to inform each other …. In an exploratory field study, a sense-making exercise was used in the initial, goal definition stage of planning. Its … suggest that sense-making can enhance the group process of inquiry during the initial stages of planning. …

financial pressures in the corporation's environment. Planning variables are then included in an attempt to uncover purposive … appear to grow in an incremental fashion with no response to leading planning variables. The latter exhibit responsiveness to … planning variables, and allocations do not take the form of routine incremental adjustments to the existing base. An …

When applied to public-sector planning, traditional least-cost optimization models and their offspring, contemporary … because important planning elements are not captured in the formulations. Omitted elements, in fact, may imply that an optimal … planning solution lies within the inferior region of a multiobjective analysis instead of along the noninferior frontier. The …

In this study we formulate a multi-regional single time period linear goal programming model for agricultural planning …

A number of approaches to the aggregate planning problem have been proposed in the literature, yet experience suggests … that industrial concerns seldom use these models in actual planning situations. This paper describes a modified random walk …

the length of the planning interval, the uncertainty in forecasts, and the periodicity of demand. For the quadratic model … our main result is that cost performance improves monotonically as the planning horizon is lengthened. We also find that …

The formal practice of forecasting and planning (F&P) has risen to prominence within a few decades and now receives … control," accumulation of redundant information, failure to seek possible disconfirming evidence, and overconfidence in …

model that is similar to ones used to solve single-period, stochastic inventory planning problems. The unit economic costs …

This paper summarizes an actual study conducted for the State Planning Organization of Turkey with the objective of …