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Unit 3: Planning

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
3.1 Need and Importance of Planning

3.2 Types of Planning
3.2.1 Objectives and Policies
3.2.2 Planning Basics
3.2.3 Applications
3.3 Short-term, Long-term and Strategic Planning
3.3.1 Preparing Students for the Knowledge Society

3.3.2 Creating a Vibrant Learning Community on Campus
3.3.3 Supporting Scholarly Communication and Research
3.3.4 Focussing all Activities on the User
3.4 Steps and Components of Planning

3.5 Summary
3.6 Keywords
3.7 Review Questions
3.8 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
• Understand the need and importance of planning
• Explain the types of planning
• Describe the short-term, long-term and strategic planning

• Discuss the steps and components of planning.

Introduction

Planning in organizations and public policy is both the organizational process of creating and
maintaining a plan; and the psychological process of thinking about the activities required to
create a desired goal on some scale. As such, it is a fundamental property of intelligent
behavior. This thought process is essential to the creation and refinement of a plan, or integration
of it with other plans, that is, it combines forecasting of developments with the preparation
of scenarios of how to react to them. An important, albeit often ignored aspect of planning,
is the relationship it holds with forecasting. Forecasting can be described as predicting what
the future will look like, whereas planning predicts what the future should look like.

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