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Informal or ad-hoc plans are created by individual humans in all of their pursuits. Structured and formal plans, used by multiple people, are more likely to occur in projects, diplomacy, careers, economic development, military campaigns, combat, or in the conduct of other business. A plan is a procedure for achieving a goal. ... Image File history File links Merge-arrows. ... For planning in AI, see automated planning and scheduling. ... Ad hoc is a Latin phrase which means for this [purpose]. It generally signifies a solution that has been tailored to a specific purpose, such as a tailor-made suit, a handcrafted network protocol, and specific-purpose equation and things like that. ... A project is a temporary endeavour undertaken to create a product or service[1]. // The word project comes from the Latin word projectum from projicere, to throw something forwards which in turn comes from pro-, which denotes something that precedes the action of the next part of the word in... This article is about negotiations. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Economic development is the development of economic wealth of countries or regions for the well-being of their inhabitants. ... “Fights” redirects here. ... In economics, a business is a legally-recognized organizational entity existing within an economically free country designed to sell goods and/or services to consumers, usually in an effort to generate profit. ...


It is common for less formal plans to be created as abstract ideas, and remain in that form as they are maintained and put to use. More formal plans as used for business and military purposes, while initially created with and as an abstract thought, are likely to be written down, drawn up or otherwise stored in a form that is accessible to multiple people across time and space. This allows more reliable collaboration in the execution of the plan.

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Planning

Main article: planning

The term planning implies the working out of sub-components in some degree of detail. Broader-brush enunciations of objectives may qualify as metaphorical roadmaps. For planning in AI, see automated planning and scheduling. ... Look up Roadmap in Wiktionary, the free dictionary A roadmap (or road map) may be: A travel map showing the roads; it may or may not also show railways. ...


Planning literally just means the creation of a plan; it can be as simple as making a list. It has acquired a technical meaning, however, to cover the area of government legislation and regulations related to the use of resources. Palm OS-based task list application A task list (also to-do list) is a list of tasks to do, such as chores or sections to be done in a project. ... Legislation (or statutory law) is law which has been promulgated (or enacted) by a legislature or other governing body. ...


Planning can refer to the planned use of any and all resources, as in the succession of Five-Year Plans through which the government of the Soviet Union sought to develop the country. However, the term is most frequently used in relation to planning for the use of land and related resources, for example in urban planning, transportation planning, and so forth. Five-Year Plan refers to a national economic development plan, lasting five years. ... Urban planning is concerned with the ordering and design of settlements, from the smallest towns to the worlds largest cities. ... Transportation planning is the field involved with the siting of transportation facilities (generally streets and highways and public transport lines). ...


Thus, in a governmental context, "planning" without any qualification is most likely to mean the regulation of land use. See also zoning. Land use is the pattern of construction and activity land is used for. ... A typical zoning map; this one identifies the zones, or development districts, in the city of Ontario, California Zoning is a North American term for a system of land-use regulation. ...


Quotation

Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential -- Winston Churchill
Plans are nothing; planning is everything.-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
No battleplan survives contact with the enemy.

Churchill redirects here. ... Dwight David Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was an American General and politician, who served as the thirty-fourth President of the United States (1953–1961). ...

Methodology

The discipline of planning has occupied great minds and theoreticians. Concepts such as top-down planning (as opposed to bottom-up planning) reveal similarities with the systems thinking behind the Top-Down Model. Top-down planning is a plan-process that integrates the gradual developmental structures from the very complex forms to the simplest forms with all integral details made explicit at the gradual unfolding of the involved complexities. ... Systems thinking is an approach to integration that is based on the belief that the component parts of a system will act differently when isolated from the systems environment or other parts of the system. ... Top-down and Bottom-up are approaches to the software development process, and by extension to other procedures, mostly involving software. ...


The subject touches such broad fields as psychology, game theory, communications and information theory, which inform the planning methods that people seek to use and refine; as well as logic and science (ie methodological naturalism) which serve as a means of testing different parts of a plan for reliability or consistency. Psychological science redirects here. ... Game theory is a branch of applied mathematics that is often used in the context of economics. ... The term communications is used in a number of disciplines: Communications, also known as communication studies is the academic discipline which studies communication, generally seen as a mixture between media studies and linguistics. ... Not to be confused with information technology, information science, or informatics. ... Logic (from Classical Greek λόγος logos; meaning word, thought, idea, argument, account, reason, or principle) is the study of the principles and criteria of valid inference and demonstration. ... Part of a scientific laboratory at the University of Cologne. ...


The specific methods used to create and refine plans depends on who is to make it, who is to put it to use, and what resources are available for the task. The methods used by an individual in their mind or personal organiser, may be very different from the collection of planning techniques found in a corporate board-room, and the planning done by a project manager has different priorities and uses different tools to the planning done by an engineer or industrial designer. As commonly used, individual refers to a person or to any specific object in a collection. ... For other uses, see Mind (disambiguation). ... A personal organizer booklet A personal organizer or planner is a small book usually containing a calendar, address book, and space for notes used to keep track of appointments or other plans. ... For other uses, see Corporation (disambiguation). ... A project manager is the person who has the overall responsibility for the successful planning and execution of any project. ... Look up engineer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Industrial Design is an applied art whereby the aesthetics and usability of products may be improved. ...


Types of plan

In military usage, the grand structured pre-set plans of World War I became the more flexible and less pretentious limited-objective operations of World War II and later. “The Great War ” redirects here. ... Planning, calculating, or the giving or receiving of information. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...


Economic planning became an important discipline in the Soviet Union and in Japan -- in the West the word "planner" may rather evoke images of town planning. This article refers to an economy controlled by the state. ... The term Western world, the West or the Occident (Latin occidens -sunset, -west, as distinct from the Orient) [1] can have multiple meanings dependent on its context (e. ... Urban, city, or town planning, deals with design of the built environment from the municipal and metropolitan perspective. ...


Examples of plans

Alfred Graf von Schlieffen For the French counter-plan, see Plan XVII The Schlieffen Plan was the German General Staffs overall strategic plan for victory on the Western Front against France, and was executed to near victory in the first month of World War I; however, a French counterattack... Five-Year Plan refers to a national economic development plan, lasting five years. ... Map of Cold-War era Europe and the Near East showing countries that received Marshall Plan aid. ... The introduction of this article does not provide enough context for readers unfamiliar with the subject. ... The Plan de Casa Mata was formulated to finish with the monarchy in Mexico and to establish the republic. ... The Treaty of Córdoba gave Mexico independence from Spain at the conclusion of the Mexican War of Independence. ... The Plan de Iguala — the Iguala Plan, also known as Plan of the Three Guarantees (Plan Trigarante) — was proclaimed on 24 February 1821 in the final phases of Mexicos War of Independence from Spain. ... The Plan of San Luis de Potosí was the document that triggered the collapse of the Diaz regime in Mexico and called for a revolution in favor of democracy. ... This article is about the 2003 invasion of Iraq. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A business plan is a formal statement of a largely enforced business goal, the reasons why they are believed attainable, and the plan for reaching those goals (Fiifi Essel). ... Site planning in landscape architecture site planning refers to the organisational stage of the landscape design process. ...

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