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PLANNING PROCESS ARCHETYPES AND THEIR EFFECTIVENESS
Author(s) -
Nutt Paul C.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
decision sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.238
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 1540-5915
pISSN - 0011-7315
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-5915.1984.tb01210.x
Subject(s) - archetype , process (computing) , process management , heuristic , quality (philosophy) , computer science , operations research , operations management , management science , business , economics , engineering , epistemology , artificial intelligence , operating system , art , philosophy , literature
Case studies of planning were profiled to identify how practitioners carry out a planning process. Five archetype processes emerged from the analyses which were named evaluative, historical model, off‐the‐shelf, search, and nova. These five processes were compared in terms of their adoption rate and perceived quality. The evaluative process was found to be the most successful, followed by the historical model and off‐the‐shelf processes. Nova and search processes had the least success. Contextual factors, such as time pressure and resources available, were included in the analyses to identify conditions of use for each process type. In situations where time pressure was high or the planning concerned services, the off‐the‐shelf model produced the best results; in situations where time pressure was low or the planning concerned internal operations, the historical model produced the best results. Most of the planning activity in organizations appears to be informal and heuristic, ignoring the methods described in the planning literature.