Suggests that writing a great mission statement can be perceived as a wonderful opportunity or a meaningless task – but it must be done well because the mission drives organizational goals, strategies and behaviour. Explores the problems of designing a scintillating mission and provides three...

To meet complex global challenges, executives face key challenges to set effective strategic visions. Too often the long‐term plan itself becomes a lengthy process, thus delaying reaching tangible results. Executives can get bogged down co‐ordinating a plan for many diverse parts and...

Models able to describe state of the art practice are fundamental to understanding the manufacturing phenomenon. A study of innovative current practices enables us to foresee the emergence of a new manufacturing paradigm: the Extended Enterprise. This arises from the eed to satisfy customers who...

Corporate planning involves setting down overall corporate financial goals and using these as the basis for setting goals in the various functional areas of the business. In the case of marketing, strategies aimed at achieving stated goals and objectives are based on an analysis of marketing...

An important characteristic of public limited liability companies is that those which provide a company’s finance are not involved in the running of the business. It is therefore in the interests of the owners (shareholders) to ensure that the management team is implementing policies...

As a development from previous work on “simpler scenarios”, a format has now been devised which allows the complete scenario planning process, from start of environmental analysis to finished robust strategies, to be run in just one day. The new process revolves around four main sessions ‐...

Many organizations treat strategic planning as a confidential exercise. While more and more organizations practice quality improvement initiatives, they fail to see the linkage between quality, productivity and profitability. Therefore, the impact of these improvement efforts does not get...

В статье рассмотрены сущность и тенденции развития внутрифирменного планирования производственных ресурсов промышленных предприятии. Показано назначение...

This paper is an attempt to highlight the prevailing situation of Jammu % Kashmir Industries Ltd. a medium scale public sector undertaking having its four working units across the state of J%K. The government established the industry to resolve major issues like employment, restoring traditional...

Suggests major developments needed in the Department of Employment and Youth, in order to achieve an acceptably high level of capability to manage the labour market in support of national social and economic objectives.