 | Budgeting, Forecasting and Planning In Uncertain Times Budgeting, planning and forecasting are critical management tasks that not only impact the future success of an organization, but can threaten its very survival if done badly. Yet in spite of their importance, the speed and complexity of today's business environment has caused a rapid decrease in the planning time horizon. As a consequence, the traditional planning processes have become unsuitable for most organization's needs. In this book, students will find new, original insights, including: 7 planning models that every organization needs to plan and manage performance 6 ways in which performance can be viewed A planning framework based on best management practices that can cope with an unpredictable business environment The application of technology to planning and latest developments in systems Results of the survey conducted for the book on the state of planning in organizationsMichael Coveney was born on July 24, 1948 in England. He was educated at St. Ignatius College, Stanford Hill and Worcester College, Oxford. After graduation, he worked as a script reader for the Royal Court Theatre and from 1972 he contributed theatre reviews to the Financial Times. He was deputy editor (1973 - 75) and editor (1975-78) of Plays and Players magazine[1] and theatre critic and deputy arts editor of the Financial Times throughout the 1980s. He was theatre critic for The Observer from 1990 until he joined the Daily Mail in 1997, following the death of Jack Tinker. He remained at the Daily Mail until 2004. He is Chief Critic of the leading theatre website WhatsOnStage.com. He is the author of The Citz, a history of the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre 1990 and Maggie Smith: A Bright Particular Star, 1993. He has also published a biography of Andrew Lloyd Webber, and a revised edition of his biography of Maggie Smith will be published in 2015. (Bowker Author Biography) |
