Planning Review: Volume 17 Issue 6

The Manager's guide to strategic planning tools and techniques

James L. Webster, William E. Reif, Jeffrey S. Bracker

As more line managers are given primary responsibility for planning there is an urgent need to acquaint them with the spectrum of potent tools and techniques for developing and…

Discovering the patterns of chaos

H. Richard Priesmeyer, Kibok Baik

Chaos theory—the science that discovers order in nature's seeming randomness—may have utility as a corporate analysis technique. While it's too soon to predict whether chaos…

Alacrity: Software that asks shrewd questions

Donald A. Cook, John W. Sterling

We invited two Ernst & Young consultants familiar with decision‐support software to test Alacrity's “expert system” for strategy development. Their review provides a detailed…