Vision Planning - The Key to the Future: A Training Manual: Volume 1 (Business and Planning Series) - Softcover

Holliday, Mr Clifford R

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1725595478 ISBN 13: 9781725595477

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018

Synopsis

This manual deals with Vision Planning, what it is; how to organize for it; and how to do it. This process is much more than what is commonly thought of as strategic planning. It is, rather, a recurring and defining planning thread that runs through the entire corporate entity. This process (rather than the actual plans) allows an organization to cope with rapid changes in its environment. The process produces strategic plans; provides for the orderly implementation of these plans to meet organizational objectives; and institutionalizes an ongoing feedback process to allow continual measurement of results. This process allows organizations to become ‘designers of the future’, rather than passive victims. The approaches described in this Manual are not a simple re-count of any single company's practices, or of any particular writer. Rather, they are an amalgamation of practices used by various companies and other organizations as well as practices described in the literature and which the author has used or seen used as a consultant to the energy, education and telecommunications sectors. This mix has been developed in to a straight forward template for converting an organization’s planning process to one based on the Vision concept of driving, rather than being driven by, future events.

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About the Author

Mr. Holliday’s recent work experience has been focused on the development and publication of major marketing and technical reports in the telecommunications network area. He has also served as a consultant in selected circumstances, founding the consultancy, B & C Consulting Services. In this role he has designed major fiber networks and has been able to assist companies in making design direction and management decisions. These consulting activities have served customers on three continents. Life in the corporate world began for Mr. Holliday with a 31 year career with GTE. At GTE he rose to the position of Vice President of Advanced Technology Planning in the Business Development Department. While in that position, he oversaw the GTE Telops Special Projects Budget ($500,000,000 annually;) worked with GTE executive management and Human Resources to develop the technology organization for the company for the 21st Century; was responsible for developing the forerunner architecture to the Verizon FiOS plan; and supervised the GTE Telops interface with GTE Laboratories (90% or the Labs’ budget.) EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND and MEMBERSHIPS BS EE and MBA (with a Marketing emphasis), University of Kentucky –1963, 1968 Professional Engineer, Kentucky, Texas Member – IEEE (Life), SPIE (Society of Optical Engineers) , National and Texas National and State Societies of Professional Engineers, and many others. Invited member of Mensa. Member of the Society of Kentucky Colonels (Awarded for work with the Kentucky Department of Energy.)

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1725595478
• ISBN 13: 9781725595477
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Holliday Alice Knowles
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 60