Planning Review: Volume 5 Issue 5

Diagramming GE's planning for What's Watt

Michael G. Allen

In this article, a practicing planner looks back instead of forward. This five‐year “postcast” of General Electric's strategic planning process from 1971 to 1976 focuses…

Dr. Spock's babies take charge

Jeanne Binstock

A shift in values has been occurring among young adults in the United States with important implications for business planning, for it is altering and will continue to…

The conserver cociety

K. Valaskakis, J.G. Smith, P.S. Sindell, I. Martin

In November 1974, GAMMA, an interuniversity futures studies group at the Université de Montréal and McGill, on the basis of an unsolicited proposal received a contract…

The future is a moving target

Milton Leontiades

The first planning conference of the North American Society for Corporate Planning, held in New York City in May, was a tribute to those who planned it. In terms of what…

Pitting science against famine

Geoffrey N. Calvert

In this issue Mr. Calvert continues his discussion on how a worldwide epidemic of hunger can possibly be averted.