Long-Range Planning of Japanese Corporations

Toyohiro Kono

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9783110858716
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Economic Theory
• Index: Economics

Table of contents

• 1.1 The concept of long-range planning
• 1.1.1 The characteristics of long-range planning
• 1.2 The effects of long-range planning
• 1.2.1 A model of the cause effect relationship
• 1.2.2 Effects on decision-making processes
• 1.3 Limitations and problems of long-range planning
• 1.4 Individual project plans and the comprehensiveness of the long-range plan
• 1.5 The concept of corporate strategy and long-range planning
• 1.5.1 The scope of corporate strategy
• 1.5.2 Decision making process
• Summary
• Chapter 2 Systems and types of long-range planning
• 2.1 The position of the long-range plan within the overall planning process
• 2.2 Components of the long-range plan
• 2.3 Types of long-range plans
• 2.3.1 Differences in focuses on the process
• 2.3.2 Types of plans, according to the contents and amount of detail
• 2.3.3 Time horizons and the two-plan system
• 2.3.4 Revision of long-range plans
• 2.4 Contents of corporate plans
• 2.5 Consolidation of plans for subsidiaries within the plans of parent companies
• 2.6 The historical development of long-range planning
• Summary
• Appendix. Detailed components of the plan
• Chapter 3 The process of planning
• 3.1 Features of strategic decision-making
• 3.2 Types of strategic decisions
• 3.3 The process of planning
• 3.4 Cases of planning process
• 3.5 Types of planning process
• 3.6 Three types of organizational process
• 3.7 Survey on the planning process in the organization
• 3.8 Planning schedules
• Summary
• Chapter 4 Organization for strategic planning
• 4.1 Top management
• 4.1.1 Top management team and the management committee
• 4.1.2 The effects of group decision-making on top management
• 4.1.3 Problems of the management committee
• 4.1.4 The role of top management in the long-range planning process
• 4.1.5 The changing of attitudes
• 4.1.6 Demographics and other characteristics of top management
• 4.2 The planning department
• 4.3 Project teams
• 4.3.1 Internal venture teams
• 4.4 ‘Incubator’ departments
• 4.5 Organizational problems of research and development
• 4.5.1 Types of research policy
• 4.5.2 Classification of research
• 4.5.3 Long-range planning for research and development
• 4.5.4 Centralization versus decentralization of research laboratories
• 4.5.5 Internal organizational structure
• 4.5.6 Combination of divergent capabilities
• 4.5.7 Interface between research, development, production engineering, production and marketing
• 4.5.8 Planning and freedom in research management
• Summary
• Chapter 5 Analysis of the environment
• 5.1 The characteristics of strategic information
• 5.2 Kinds of information
• 5.3 Identifying needs in strategic information
• 5.4 Database structure and data collection
• 5.5 Data sources
• 5.6 Collectors of information
• 5.7 Processing
• 5.8 Communication, storage and retrieval of information
• Summary
• Chapter 6 Internal analysis and the changing of corporate culture
• 6.1 Types of internal analyses
• 6.2 The system of internal analysis
• 6.3 The use of growth/share matrix (product-portfolio matrix)
• 6.4 Sources of data
• 6.5 Corporate culture and long-range planning
• Summary
• Appendix: Method of survey
• Bibliography on corporate culture
• Chapter 7 Strategic issues and long-range goals
• 7.1 The meaning of strategic issues
• 7.2 The process of finding strategic issues
• 7.3 The organizational process
• 7.4 Long-range goals
• 7.5 The process of deciding goal levels
• 7.6 The international comparison of goals
• 7.7 Long term visions and corporate philosophies
• 7.8 The implementations of long-term strategy
• Summary
• Chapter 8 Development of the product-market strategy
• 8.1 Approaches to product-market strategies
• 8.2 The options of product-market strategies and basic principles
• 8.3 The process of transformation
• 8.4 The use of planning techniques
• Summary
• Bibliography for product market strategy
• Chapter 9 Resource structure planning
• 9.1 Areas of resource structure
• 9.2 The decision process
• 9.3 Using operational plans to construct resource structure plans
• 9.4 Capital investment
• 9.5 Information systems
• 9.6 Human resource planning
• 9.7The strategic acquisition of resources
• Summary
• Bibliography for resource structure
• Part A The evaluation of strategy
• 10.1 Evaluation criteria: rating scale methods
• 10.2 Evaluation criteria: the matrix model
• 10.3 Quantitative measurements
• 10.4 Strategic policies
• 10.5 The classification of evaluation
• 10.6 The process of appraisal
• Summary
• Part B Resource allocation
• 10.7 Total amount
• 10.8 Allocation of resources to projects
• 10.9 The process of resource allocation
• 10.10 Political behaviour
• Summary
• Chapter 11 The integration of strategic decisions
• 11.1 Ranking of projects and co-ordination of planning activities
• 11.2 Interface between departments - conditions of self-coordination
• 11.3 Conflict resolution
• Summary
• Chapter 12 Long-range profit planning
• 12.1 Concept and types
• 12.2 Purpose and limitations
• 12.3 The process of profit planning
• 12.4 Profit planning and simulation
• 12.5 Profit improvement plans
• 12.6 Financial ratios
• Summary
• Chapter 13 Decision making under uncertainty
• 13.1 Increase of information
• 13.2 Range forecasting
• 13.3 Sequential decisions
• 13.4 Early warning systems
• 13.5 Contingency plans
• 13.6 Revision of the plan
• 13.7 Diversification and flexibility of business
• 13.8 Relative competitiveness and the strengthening of resource capabilities
• 13.9 The relationship between the four approaches
• Chapter 14 Implementation and control
• 14.1 Models of implementation and control
• 14.2 Promotion of implementation
• 14.3 Action programmes
• 14.4 Follow-up
• 14.5 The rewards for implementation
• Summary
• Chapter 15 Problems and success factors
• 15.1 Frameworks of analysis
• 15.2 Problems
• 15.3 Meaning of success
• 15.4 Success factors
• 15.4.1 Strategy oriented culture
• 15.4.2 Planning systems
• 15.4.3 Strategic decisions in long-range planning
• 15.5 Recent changes in the long-range planning systems
• Summary
• References (all chapters)
• Appendix: Sources of data
• Index