A recent survey by Social Systems, Inc., indicates that since 1970 over 1000 corporations in the United States and Canada have begun developing and using corporate simulation models. However, the percentage of corporations that have experience with corporate models remains relatively small. Why...

Through direct personal contact we have identified over 2000 corporations in the United States, Canada, and Europe that are either using, developing, or planning to develop some form of corporate planning model. In 1974 we mailed questionnaires to 1881 of these corporations to ascertain (1) who...

On October 9–10, 1975, representatives from approximately 75 companies in the United States, Canada, and Mexico attended a symposium in New Orleans entitled “The Future of Corporate Planning Models.” The symposium, sponsored by the Corporate Modeling Users Group of Social Systems, Inc.,...

The January issue of Planning Review contained an article by Bradley T. Gale which described the PIMS Program of SPI. Utilizing a database of strategic information on over one thousand product‐line businesses, the objectives of The PIMS Program according to Gale are “to discover the general...

The essence of strategic planning is to provide a conceptual framework for the company's chief executive officer (CEO) and line managers to enable them to make decisions today that will affect the company in the future. Strategic planning involves the formulation of long term goals and...

In theory, the annual budget for a company should not be formulated until after the long term strategic plan has been developed, and goals, objectives and business strategies have been defined for the company as well as for its individual business units. Specifically, the budget should be...

Two views of trade prospects with the Soviet Union are offered in this article and a companion study by Messers Coplin and O'Leary, Prof. Naylor is guardedly optimistic, while his brother Soviet watchers are guardedly pessimistic. Moscow has wooed Naylor with private meetings, and he has...