Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating

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Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating

• FCS 3000
• M. Burns

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Management Process
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What is planning?

• Process involving a series of decisions leading
  to a need or goal fulfillment.
• Thinking and information-gathering process
  involving a series of decisions

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Planning Process Model

• Awareness
• Gathering and analyzing information
• Storyboarding
• Forming a plan
• Implementing the plan
• Evaluating the plan

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Factors influencing planning

• Situational factors
• Physical surroundings
• Social surroundings
• Available time
• Task at hand

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Factors influencing planning

• Personal traits and characteristics
• Personality
• Introvert v extrovert
• Level of expertise or ability to perform tasks
  successfully and dependably

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Factors influencing planning

• Motivational factors
• Goal/objective must be desired
• Goal/objective seeker must be persistent
• Seeker becomes discontented if goal isnt obtained

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Maslows Hierarchy
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Components of a plan

• Detailed with a purpose
• Standards set and explicitly stated
• Resources identified
• Timeline
• Sequencing events
• Independent, dovetail, overlapping, or
  interdependent
• Scheduling events

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Types of plans

• Directional
• Linear path to long-term goal achievement
• Contingency
• Backup plan
• Proactive v reactive
• Strategic
• Forward-looking approach while realizing past
  business still to do

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Plan implementation

• Putting plans and procedures into action AND
  monitoring the action
• Obstacles of implementation
• Other people/close-mindedness
• Costs and/or competition
• Crises/procrastination
• scanning for obstacles

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Evaluation

• Process of judging or examining the cost, value
  or worth of a plan or decision based on met
  standards or goals
• Value of self-assessment