Strategic planning: shaping an uncertain future

2008 ◽  
Vol 46 (9) ◽  
pp. 6-10
Author(s):  
Doug Zuckerman ◽  
Stu Personick
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Uncertain Future

scholarly journals The Firm as an Engine of Imagination: Organizational prospection and the making of economic futures

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 263178772110057
Author(s):  
Jens Beckert
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Organizational Analysis ◽  
Economic Forecasting ◽  
Business Plans ◽  
Analytical Perspective ◽  
Uncertain Future ◽  
To Come

What do organizations do, and why? An important but only selectively scrutinized aspect of the doings of organizations consists in their creation of imaginaries of economic futures. Under conditions of uncertainty, it is through ‘imagined futures’ that organizations motivate and find the rationale for their decisions, coordinate activities, manage stakeholders and compete with one another. This article suggests making the construction of imagined futures a vantage point for the study of organizations and processes of organizing. It focuses on ‘instruments of imagination’ used by firms to create ‘fictional expectations’ which are used to come to terms with an uncertain future – and to proactively shape this future. Instruments discussed here include strategic planning, technological projections, economic forecasting, and business plans among others. The article argues that a fruitful general analytical perspective can be developed by bringing the constitution, contestation and effects of imagined futures to the forefront of organizational analysis.

scholarly journals Use of scenarios and strategic planning to explore an uncertain future in Greenland

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 1575-1585 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Merrild Hansen ◽  
Sanne Vammen Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Uncertain Future

The good and bad of strategic planning in research organizations

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara J. Perry ◽  
Steven C. Currall ◽  
Karla K. Stuebing ◽  
Emily M. Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Research Organizations
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