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A plan is typically any diagram or list of steps with details of timing and resources, used
to achieve an objective to do something. It is commonly understood as a temporal set of
intended actions through which one expects to achieve a goal.
For spatial or planar topologic or topographic sets see map.
Plans can be formal or informal:
Contents
1Topics
o 1.1Planning
o 1.2Planners
o 1.3Methodology
2Examples of plans
3Quotations
4See also
5References
Topics[edit]
Planning[edit]
The term planning implies the working out of sub-components in some degree of
elaborate detail. Broader-brush enunciations of objectives may qualify as
metaphorical roadmaps. Planning literally just means the creation of a plan; it can be as
simple as making a list. It has acquired a technical meaning, however, to cover the area
of government legislation and regulations elated to the use of resources.
Planning can refer to the planned use of any and all resources, as in the succession
of Five-Year Plans through which the government of the Soviet Union sought to develop
the country. However, the term is most frequently used in relation to planning for the
use of land and related resources, for example in urban planning, transportation
planning, etc.
In a governmental context, "planning" without any qualification is most likely to mean the
regulation of land use. See also zoning.
Planners[edit]
Planners are the professionals that have the requisite training to take or make decisions
that will help or balance the society in order to have a functional, aesthetic, and
convenient environment.
Methodology[edit]
Concepts such as top-down planning (as opposed to bottom-up planning) reveal
similarities with the systems thinking behind the top-down model.
The subject touches such broad fields as psychology, game
theory, communications and information theory, which inform the planning methods that
people seek to use and refine; as well as logic and science (i.e. methodological
naturalism) which serve as a means of testing different parts of a plan for reliability or
consistency.
The specific methods used to create and refine plans depend on who is to make it, who
is to put it to use, and what resources are available for the task. The methods used by
an individual in his or her mind or personal organizer, may be very different from the
collection of planning techniques found in a corporate board-room, and the planning
done by a project manager has different priorities and uses different tools to the
planning done by an engineer or industrial designer.
Examples of plans[edit]
Architectural plan
Business plan
Fragplan
Flight plan
Health plan
Marketing plan
Military plan
Project plan
Site plan
Plan de Ayala
Plan de Casa Mata
Plan de Córdoba
Plan de Iguala
Plan de San Luis Potosí
The Schlieffen Plan
The Five-Year Plan system in the former Soviet
Union
The Marshall Plan
U.S. plan to invade Iraq
Quotations[edit]
Plans are of little importance, but planning is
essential – Winston Churchill
Plans are nothing; planning is everything. – Dwight D.
Eisenhower
No battle plan survives contact with the
enemy. – Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a
perfect plan next week. – George S. Patton
See also[edit]
Automated planning
Critical path method
PDCA
PERT
Planned unit development
Roadmap
Strategy
Tactics
References[edit]
1. ^ "What Should Be Included in a Project
Plan". www.pmhut.com.
Retrieved December 18, 2009.
2. ^ J. Scott Armstrong (1986). "The Value of
Formal Planning for Strategic Decisions: A
Reply" (PDF). Strategic Management
Journal. 7 (2): 183–
185. doi:10.1002/smj.4250070207. S2CID
29733040.
Categories:
Management
Intention
Planning
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