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Part 1
- 1) Discuss the benefits and pitfalls of planning.
- 2) Describe the steps involved in making a plan that works.
- 3) What are S.M.A.R.T. goals? Provide a detailed SMART goal that you have implemented.
- 4) Discuss how companies can use plans at all management levels, from top to bottom.
- 5) Explain how group decisions and group decision-making techniques can improve decision making.
Part 2
“Strategic Plan.” Go to NASA’s strategic plan at http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/codez/plans.html. Browse through the latest strategic plan (it will be long, but just skim through and catch the gist of the plan). Then scroll down to “Center Implementation Plans” and select three of these. Skim through it.
1) How does NASA’s strategic plan relate to the organization’s vision and mission?
2) How is each center’s specific implementation plan connected to NASA?
3) List specific items in each implementation plan that are consistent with NASA’s strategic plan.
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Running head: PLANNING AND DECISION MAKING CHAPTER REVIEW
Planning and Decision Making
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PLANNING AND DECISION MAKING CHAPTER REVIEW
Planning and Decision Making Chapter Review
Part 1
1. Planning has various benefits and pitfalls. To begin with, it provides a route to the
desired end for a company or organization. Secondly, it enables review and
strategizing for the mangers, this implies that they can be able to see the parts of an
implementation plan that is not working and amend it effectively. Some of the pitfalls
for planning include decision making and the time it takes. Basically, generating a
great plan takes many people’s inputs, thereby taking up so much time that would
otherwise have been used in operationalizing organizational activities.
2. Coming up with effective plans follows five steps which determine its success or
failure in the end. The first step is identif...