This document defines planning and outlines the planning process. It states that planning is the process of thinking about and organizing activities to achieve goals, and involves making decisions about future actions from available alternatives. A key part of planning is establishing goals and arranging them in a logical order to bridge the gap from an organization's current state to its desired future state. The document also briefly describes the Tower of Hanoi puzzle, a neuropsychological test involving moving disks between rods under certain rules, where planning is a key component of successfully solving the puzzle.

1. Planning and Development

2. DEFINITION
• Planning (also called forethought) is the
process of thinking about an organizing the
activities required to achieve a desired goal.

3. • It is a conscious as well as sub-conscious activity.
• It is "an anticipatory decision making process"
that helps in coping with complexities.
• It is deciding future course of action from
amongst alternatives.
• It is a process that involves making and evaluating
each set of interrelated decisions.
• It is selection of missions, objectives and
"translation of knowledge into action."
• A planned performance brings better results
compared to an unplanned one.

4. • A manager's job is planning, monitoring and
controlling. Planning and goal setting are
important traits of an organization. It is done at
all levels of the organization.
• Planning includes the plan, the thought process,
action, and implementation.
• Planning gives more power over the future.
• Planning is deciding in advance what to do, how
to do it, when to do it, and who should do it.
• This bridges the gap from where the organization
is to where it wants to be. The planning function
involves establishing goals and arranging them in
logical order

5. PLANNING PROCESS

6. NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST ( TOWER
OF HANOI)
• A puzzle invented in 1883 by the French
mathematician Édouard Lucas. There are
different variations of the puzzle, the classic
version consists of three rods and usually
seven to nine discs of subsequently smaller
size.

7. • Planning is a key component of the problem
solving skills necessary to achieve the objective,
which is to move the entire stack to another rod,
obeying the following rules
• Only one disk may be moved at a time.
• Each move consists of taking the upper disk from
one of the rods and sliding it onto another rod,
on top of the other disks that may already be
present on that rod.
• No disk may be placed on top of a smaller disk