Excerpt from Diagnosis and Design of Strategic Planning Systems in Diversified Corporations A second purpose of planning, however, springs from the need to cope with discontinuities in the firm's environment and to seize new Opportunities and avoid arising threats. Scanning the environment for relevant data, developing new programs in attractive business areas, taking advantage of the firm's strengths and providing for unforseen contingencies comprise a second aspect of long-range planning activity that we might label adaptive planning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition.

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