Mega Planning : Practical Tools for

Mega Planning involves significant stakeholders in defining success and then identifies what each person and part of an organization must do to succeed.The author uses proven techniques, and covers the basic 'how-to's' of quality management, needs assessment, gap analysis, benchmarking, reengineering, and continuous improvement.

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction: An ``Owner's Manual'' for Benefiting From This Book

xi

The New Realities for Organizations, Society, and Planning: Changing Paradigms

1

(20)

Old Paradigm Thinking

2

(2)

Some New Realities

4

(12)

Organizational and Personal Success Depends on Using New Realities for Shifting Your Paradigms and Changing How You Think and Do

16

(1)

Exercises

16

(5)

Ends and Means

21

(26)

Objectives: What They Are

24

(4)

Preparing Objectives (and Performance Indicators)

28

(1)

Three Levels of Results: The Organizational Elements Model

29

(8)

Summary

37

(2)

Exercises

39

(8)

Needs and Needs Assessment

47

(44)

Defining Need and Needs Assessment

47

(4)

What Is a Needs Assessment?

51

(2)

The Nine Steps of Needs Assessment

53

(19)

Applying Needs Assessment to Your Organization

72

(6)

Why Bother?

78

(3)

Exercises

81

(10)

An Ideal Vision: The Underlying Basis for All Planning and Doing

91

(20)

Visions and Visioning

91

(1)

What Is an Ideal Vision?

92

(2)

A Basic Ideal Vision

94

(3)

Identifying Your Organization's Current Contribution to Society

97

(6)

Exercises

103

(8)

A Mega Planning Framework

111

(22)

The Mega Planning Framework

113

(3)

The Mega Planning Framework and Descriptions of the Basic Elements and Tools

116

(9)

Implementing Mega Planning

125

(2)

Mistakes Often Made by Strategic---But Not Mega---Planners

127

(1)

Summary

128

(1)

Exercises

129

(4)

Developing the Mega Plan: From Concept to Plan

133

(32)

Identify SWOT's: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats

135

(6)

The Management Plan: Identifying the Functions Required to Get From What Is to What Should Be in Terms of Results

141

(1)

Mission and Function Analysis

142

(2)

The Mission Profile: A Graphic Management Plan

144

(14)

Task Analysis: An Option

158

(2)

Summary

160

(5)

Tactical Planning: From the Mega Plan to Designing and Developing Success

165

(32)

Finding Out What Is Available

166

(2)

Prerequisites for Methods-Means Analysis

168

(1)

When Does Methods-Means Analysis Begin?

169

(2)

Locating Valid Methods-Means Information

171

(1)

Compiling and Recording the Methods-Means Data

171

(2)

Procedure for Performing a Methods-Means Analysis

173

(1)

Requirements for Methods-Means Analysis

174

(1)

From System to Systems Analysis

174

(1)

Approaches to Systems Analysis

175

(5)

Selecting the Methods and Means

180

(3)

Performance Accomplishment Systems: From Plan to Performance

183

(4)

Summary

187

(4)

Exercises

191

(6)

Putting Mega Planning to Work: Integrating Mega Planning, Needs Assessment, and Quality Management (QM)

197

(20)

Releasing the Power of Knowing Where to Head and Continuous Improvement

198

(3)

Making QM a Reality in Your Organization

201

(3)

Planning: Where Should We Be Headed? A Brief Review

204

(3)

Shifting the QM Paradigm: Quality Management Plus (QM+)

207

(3)

Relating Planning and Quality Management

210

(1)

Delivering Synergy

211

(1)

Exercises

212

(5)

From Mega Plan to Organizational Success

217

(18)

The Mega Plan Report

218

(3)

Putting the Mega Plan to Work

221

(2)

Management and Continuous Improvement

223

(5)

Mega Planning: Creating Success

228

(2)

Exercise

230

(5)

Applications and Case Studies of Mega Planning

235

(16)

Hypothetical Scenarios Based on Reality

236

(6)

Case Studies of Organizations Applying Mega Planning

242

(9)

Glossary

251

(8)

Bibliography

259

(12)

Index

271

(8)

About the Author

279

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