Title: General decision assurance principles and procedures for strategic planning

Authors: John de Reuck, Olive Schmidenberg, Des Klass

Addresses: School of Business, Murdoch University, South Street, Murdoch, Western Australia 6150, Australia. Graduate School of Business, Curtin University of Technology, 30th Floor, QV1 Building, 250 St George's Tce, Perth, Western Australia 6000, Australia. Graduate School of Business, Curtin University of Technology, 30th Floor, QV1 Building, 250 St George's Tce, Perth, Western Australia 6000, Australia

Abstract: This paper addresses two perceived inadequacies in traditional approaches to strategic planning the paucity of well-articulated theoretical assumptions underlying strategic planning procedures, and an insufficient emphasis on the importance to the quality of the final outcome, of robust, group decision management processes in which to embed the planning procedures. A set of principles and procedures to address these short-comings are proposed.

Keywords: group decision making; decision management; facilitation; group decision support systems; strategic planning; decision quality; decision conferencing.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMDM.2002.002469

International Journal of Management and Decision Making, 2002 Vol.3 No.2, pp.139-150

Published online: 18 Jul 2003 *

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