With this interview of W.R. Goodwin, President and Chief Executive Officer of Johns‐Manville, Planning Review initiates a series of articles designed to elicit the opinion of top management on the effectiveness of planning and the proper direction for the state of the art. In simple terms the...

By asking Donald V. Seibert, Chairman of the Board of JCPenney, a number of variations on the basic question, “How do you plan?” this magazine continues its series of interviews with top management. These articles are informal and designed to reveal a chief executive officer's attitudes, his...

Probably every planner, while reading an article about managing, has felt a twinge of discomfort or gnaw of disbelief over the discrepancy between management as it is written about and management as it is practiced. According to the canons of business literary tradition, management's style and...

Planning Review intercepted Stafford Beer after his recent luncheon address to the Montreal chapters of NASCP and PEI to extract his current views on planning and the organization. Beer has long been concerned with the rate of change which technological achievement represents, and comments:...

Canada's Department of Industry, Trade, and Commerce (DITC) is similar in many ways to the U.S. Department of Commerce. Planning Review's Editorial Director accosted Gordon Osbaldeston, the Department's urbane Deputy Minister, in Ottawa to ask some tough questions about how this key Department...

3M is one of america's best‐run, most innovative, and diverse companies. And this diversity has been increasing exponentially for the past sixty years. Two decades after its founding, 3M's business was relatively simple. In the early 1920s, the corporation manufactured a line of sandpapers,...

Planning Review interviewed T. Boone Pickens in Westchester shortly before he spoke at Business Week's “Conference on the Future” in April. Mr. Pickens is a charming propagandist, a great talker generous with his time, and an entrepreneur clearly excited about catching a ride on the flood...

A crystalization of the author's 20 years of corporate planning experience, this is a “how to” book for line managers with planning responsibility and for CEOs who want to establish a planning culture in their firm.

Market share is one of five key indicators associated with the success of 50 high performers in the service industry.

Selective Insurance, a mid‐sized regional property and casualty insurance firm, first mounted a classic strategy‐development effort and then implemented a reengineering effort focused on the core processes that drove their business.