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Unit 4: Area of Planning

be met more readily and less expensively by locating special collections away from exterior Notes
walls and windows where environmental control is more difficult and more costly.

Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:
5. The ...... analysis is often used in academia to highlight and identify strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities and threats.
6. The next few decades will continue to be ones of transition and role redefinition for the
...... .
7. ...... is a process in which a manager and an employee agree upon a set of specific
performance goals.
8. Formulating goals is not an easy task for ...... .

4.5 Summary

• Area Development Plan: The ADP is described as providing facility planning at the
small area or sub-area level which falls between master planning for an entire installation
(RPMP) and site planning for individual buildings.
• SWOT analysis is a strategic planning method used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses,
Opportunities, and Threats involved in a project or in a business venture. It involves
specifying the objective of the business venture or project and identifying the internal
and external factors that are favorable and unfavorable to achieve that objective.
• Matching is used to find competitive advantages by matching the strengths to opportunities.
• Converting is to apply conversion strategies to convert weaknesses or threats into strengths
or opportunities.
• As part of the development of strategies and plans to enable the organization to achieve
its objectives, then that organization will use a systematic/rigorous process known as
corporate planning.
• In many competitor analyses, marketers build detailed profiles of each competitor in the
market, focusing especially on their relative competitive strengths and weaknesses using
SWOT analysis.
• Change is the order of the world. It is the change, particularly developmental changes
that have been key drivers in societal transformation at large.
• The biggest challenge for Indian librarianship is to bring about attitudinal change among
the library staff.
• Management by Objectives (MBO) is a process in which a manager and an employee
agree upon a set of specific performance goals, or objectives, and jointly develop a plan
for reaching them.
• Formulating goals is not an easy task for employees, and most people do not master it
immediately.
• Preservation costs money to save money; it requires an initial investment in building
features and systems to increase protection and reduce deterioration.

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