Planning and Decision Making
CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
• Define the management functions of planning and decision making.
• Identify the characteristics of plans and specifically address those characteristics or features that make plans effective.
• Identify participants and their responsibilities in the planning process.
• Delineate the constraints placed on planning and identify the boundaries to be observed in the planning process.
• Define and differentiate among the terms philosophy, goal, objective, functional objective, policy, procedure, method, and rule.
• Delineate aspects of project management and 500-day plans.
• Evaluate plans and decisions using after-action reviews, OODA loop feedback, and analyses of unanticipated consequences.
• Determine how to evaluate a decision’s importance.
• Describe some of the tools and techniques available to aid decision making. Planning
