Planning Under Pressure: The Strategic Choice Approach - Hardcover

Friend, John; Hickling, Allen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138140058 ISBN 13: 9781138140059

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

Planning under Pressure offers managers, planners, consultants and students a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the Strategic Choice Approach, which has gradually been attracting worldwide recognition as a fresh, versatile and practical approach to collaborative decision-making under uncertainty.
Starting from basic principles, the book uses helpful diagrams and clear explanations to demonstrate practical ways of approaching daunting decision problems; of devising possible ways forward; and of working effectively towards agreed courses of action. Along he way, decision makers are helped to cope with diverse sources of uncertainty – technical, political, managerial – in a strategic manner.
In this extended third edition, the authors have added short contributions from 21 users from seven countries. These new contributors present lessons from their varied experiences in adapting the Strategic Choice Approach to guide decision-making and learning in settings ranging from the re-routing of a controversial city carnival procession to national policy for the management of nuclear waste.

About this title

About the Author:

Friend initiated and directed a ground-breaking programme of action research in the appreciation and facilitation of planning processes while in London's Tavistock Institute of Human Relations.

Allen Hickling has been collecting toy forts and castles for thirty years. He has assembled one of the largest collections in the world, part of which is in a museum in Cyprus.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1138140058
• ISBN 13: 9781138140059
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 416