Across
- 4. Short-term plans, narrower plans created by middle-level managers that translate high-level strategic plans into specific, calculated actions and functions for distinct departments or sub-units.
- 7. Directing organizational resources (people, technology, finance) toward a specific mission, vision, or strategic end to outperform competitors in the marketplace.
- 9. A planning tool that involves comparing an organization's practices, procedures, or outcomes against those of its competitors to establish industry standards and target goals.
- 10. This plan type is an operational plans created for one-time activities or specific non-recurring events that expire once the objective is met (e.g., quarterly promotional ads or monthly budgets). (No “-”)
- 11. Long-term plans designed with the entire organization in mind that set broad, high-level directional goals (typically spanning 3–10 years) and serve as the framework for lower-level planning.
Down
- 1. Highly detailed plans developed by lower-level or front-line managers that focus on the daily routine tasks, specific procedures, and ongoing processes within a department.
- 2. This plan is a flexible strategy designed to respond to potential future variations, unexpected outcomes, or ambiguous events in the external environment by preparing for downside, expected, and upside scenarios.
- 3. The systematic process of making decisions about goals and activities that an organization will pursue. It provides direction, focus, and context for all other management functions.
- 5. This analysis type involves the process of evaluating factors within an organization—such as its culture, history, capabilities, values, and physical or financial resources—to identify its capabilities and areas needing improvement.
- 6. This analysis type involves the process of evaluating factors outside the organization—including the competitive environment (customers, suppliers, competitors, substitutes) and macro environment variables (legal, technological, economic, political, demographic, and social factors)—to identify risks and opportunities.
- 8. This plan type is an operational plan designed to be used repeatedly over time and updated as needed, providing standardized guidelines, policies, procedures, and rules for routine responsibilities.