The rise and fall of strategic planning af Henry Mintzberg (Bog)

Forfatter: Henry Mintzberg

Sprog: Engelsk

Antal sider: 484

Forlag: Prentice Hall

Udgivelsesår: 2000

Mintzberg traces the origins and history of strategic planning through its prominence and subsequent fall. He argues that we must reconceive the process by which strategies are created by emphasizing informal learning and personal vision. Mintzberg proposes new definitions of planning and strategy, and examines in unusual ways the various models of strategic planning and the evidence of why they failed. Reviewing the so-called 'pitfalls' of planning, he shows how the process itself can destroy commitment, narrow a company's vision, discourage change, and breed an atmosphere of politics. In a harsh critique of many sacred cows, he describes three basic fallacies of the process - that discontinuities can be predicted, that strategists can be detached from the operations of the organization, and that the process of strategy-making itself can be formalized.

Titel: The rise and fall of strategic planning

Genre: Faglitteratur

Sammendrag: In this definitive and revealing history, Henry Mintzberg unmasks the process that has mesmerized so many organizations since 1965: strategic planning. Mintzberg concludes that strategy cannot be planned because planning is about analysis and strategy is about synthesis. Revisiting various models of strategic planning and the evidence of why they failed, he shows how the process itself can have negative impacts. He proposes new definitions of planning and strategy.

Type: Paperback