Excerpt from An Analytical Scheme for the Assessment of a Diversified Company's Corporate Planning System: Needs, Capabilities, EffectivenessFirst, the strategic setting of the company should be determined, given that this will be a major determinant of the needs for plan ning. A diversified company will carry out several interrelated strategies; a corporate portfolio strategy and several divisional business strategies. We shall follow a framework proposed by Lorange for determining the needs for planning that are arising from the strategic settings.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

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