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 Failures of Central PlanningInayet HadiProfessor GagePAD 5002, Section 001December 12, 2006
 
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Table of ContentsAbstract
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Strategic and Central Planning
I.Difference between Central Planningand Strategic Planning4II. Assumptions and Refutations of Central Planning 5III. Central Planning: Failing the Community (Case) 6
Management's Role
IV. Drucker on Function of Management 8V. Management and Its Benefits 9VI.The Need for Performance and Political Appointees11
Failures of Central Planning
VII. Formal Specifications 12VIII. Approaches to Program Management 15IX.Decision Making Models21
Conclusion
X. Organizations of the Future 22XI. Works Cited 23
 
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Abstract
The principles of central planning and strategic planning are discussed in its variantforms and applied throughout the profession of management. With the withering away of theUSSR, and its economic systems, without a doubt address the uselessness of central planningmethods. Central planning assumes that all knowledge and information would be available forthe use of a central planning board, and that the subordinate units will perform as is expected.This assumption of central planning method has been refuted in the proceeding paper.Management role and its effect towards enhancing performance are addressed throughthe functions of management, its benefits, and the role of political appointees in the process of strategic planning method. Managements role are drastically different in the central planningmethod and the strategic planning method. In the former scenario, management continuouslywaits for instructions from the central planning board, while in the lateral scenario; managementtakes proactive and responsible actions in order to achieve its objectives or goals without havingto wait for approval to act.The failures of central planning are discussed against the formal specifications principalsdeveloped by Peter F. Drucker. The differences are discussed and evaluated between theapproaches to program management from central planning and strategic planning perspectives,As well as the approaches taken towards the utilization of decision making models.Finally, organizations of the future are discussed in light of the failures of centralplanning methodology, and the need for incorporation of autonomous strategic planningperspectives to ensure that organizations of the future maximizes the needed and positivebenefits that they confer upon society.
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