How do you think planning in today’s organizations compares to

planning 25 years ago ?

Do you think planning becomes more important or less important in a
world where everything is changing quickly and crises are a regular
part of organizational life?

As far as planning in today’s organizations compared to planning in an

organization from 25 years ago there are many of the same challenges,
but there are quite a few differences as well. While today we have
countless tools to help us plan more efficiently within our organizations,
we also we live in a much faster pace world than existed 25 years ago.
There are many ways to list the types of organizational plans, but all the
types will usually fall into the four main categories of financial, strategic,
contingency, and succession (Ahmed, 2018). All of these categories
have highly evolved in the last 25 years. Financial planning has never
been more complex but there are many tools that organizations can use
to forecast the potential financial difficulty. These types of tools may
have existed 25 years ago but were not as available or useful as they
are today. Strategic planning involves translating the organization’s
vision into goals and objectives with steps in place to achieve them
(Ahmed, 2018).This type of planning involves analyzing the
organization’s future opportunities and threats (Ahmed, 2018). Strategic
planning tools like financial planning tools have never been as useful
and available as they are today. This is the exact case with contingency
planning and succession planning as well. There have never been as
many potential risks that current organizations need to plan for with
contingency plans as there are today. With succession planning it
requires a plan be put in place in case someone in a decision-making
management position leaves the organization. There is much more
potential of this today than there was 25 years ago just based solely on
the number of other opportunities decision-making managers have
compared to back then.Planning is much more important in a world
where there are so many quick changes and crisis are a part of
organizational life. Planning will help an organization to react better to
those quick changes and avoid the crisis within the organization.
According to Daft (2016 p.165), “in uncertain environments, planning
and environmental forecasting actually become more important as a
way to keep the organization geared for a coordinated, speedy
response.” If there is no organizational planning then the organization
will fail. All of the types of organizational planning that were covered
above is all about adapting to change and forecasting how to overcome
any potential crisis that may occur in the organization. There has never
been as many resources available to help overcome any issues that
may arise as there are today and taking full advantage of them will
ensure the organization will be successful.

Defination Goal + plan

Goal= target you set

Planning 25 years old before and after limited tech resources

limited

Does planning become more important