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Trend Analysis

Tomorrow’s problems can be avoided by understanding yesterday’s results.

—H. James Harrington

The four points of view presented in Chapter 4 will serve as a basis for the development of the concepts described throughout this chapter. They were

  1. Planning deals with the future focus of current decisions.

  2. The Organizational Master Plan cycle is a systematic process.

  3. The Organizational Master Plan process deals with an attitude, a philosophy, a way of life.

  4. The Organizational Master Plan cycle links three major types of plans together.

Before proceeding, however, it is important to comment briefly about what formal strategic planning is not: strategic planning does not attempt to make future decisions. Decisions can ...

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