Only recently spatial planning is rediscovered as a strategic process. This paper introduces the concept of social paradoxes to describe the contradicting requirements spatial planners have to meet in their daily work. Among the most important social paradoxes with regard to strategic planning is the one between deliberative planning and incremental adaptation to emergent developments. The pape...

This paper proposes a framework for using business and organizational scenario-planning techniques for regional strategic transportation-planning purposes. The paper provides a brief history of scenario planning as it emerged from business-strategic planning activities and gives an overview of its goals and limitations. The paper then reviews the context for scenario planning in regional transp...

A well-developed strategic plan is merely an expensive report. It becomes a viable tool when it is placed in the hands of a manager competent to execute the plan. While the link between corporate strategic planning and management manpower planning seems obvious, a recent Business Week article suggests that companies are only now seriously trying to develop formal ties between the two systems. ̂ ...

To help bridge the gap between the emergent and rational school of strategy formation, I analyze the role of alternative generation and information integration as two process-based characteristics of the strategy process in the relationship between strategic planning and decision quality. Based on a survey of 155 top executives from German small and medium-sized companies, I show that the degre...

The current study aimed to examine the effects of strategic planning, online planning, strategic planning and online planning combined (joint planning), and no planning on the complexity, accuracy, and fluency of oral productions in two simple and complex narrative tasks. Eighty advanced EFL learners performed one simple narrative task and a complex narrative task with 20 minutes in between. Th...

“Improving information systems strategic planning” remains among one of top ten issues facing IS/IT executives and corporate general managers. As e-business strategies have received growing attention from enterprises, information systems strategic planning (ISSP) is now considered critical in developing a successful e-strategy. However, numerous researchers have examined the relationship betwee...

B ASHING TRADITIONAL APPROACHES TO STRATEGIC planning has become the favoured past-time of leading business authors on both sides of the Atlantic. The litany of indictments against the types of planning processes in place at most large multinational firms is long, and often difficult to disagree with. Traditional processes have choked initiative and favoured incremental over substantive change....

This paper discusses the design characteristics management accounting systems should have to be useful for strategic planning and control and provides brief introductions to strategic variance analysis, profit-linked performance measurement models and balanced scorecard. It shows two multi-period, multiproduct models are specified, can be related to Porter's strategy framework and cost and reve...

We consider an integrated decision making process of autonomous vehicles in agent-oriented simulation of urban traffic systems. In our approach, the planning process for a vehicle agent is separated into two stages: strategic planning and tactical planning. During the strategic planning stage the vehicle agents constructs the optimal route from source to destination; during the tactical plannin...

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