Making effective project selection decisions in an enterprise requires a clear idea of where the enterprise is in the current state, what its vision for the future is, and how to make a transition to its desired future state possible. A strategic plan is a document that encompasses this information and is produced as an output of corporate strategic planning. In this paper we examine business m...

BACKGROUND The culture of New Public Management has promoted the diffusion of strategic management tools throughout Public Healthcare Organisations (PHOs). There is consensus that better strategic planning tools are required to achieve higher levels of organisational performance. This paper provides evidence and understanding of the emergent uses and scope of strategic planning in PHOs, in orde...

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...