Planning Under Pressure by John Friend
Offers managers, planners, consultants and students a comprehensive guide to the Strategic Choice Approach. Starting from basic principles, this book uses diagrams and explanations to demonstrate practical ways of approaching daunting decision problems; of devising possible ways forward; and of working effectively towards agreed courses of action.
OF THE SECOND EDITION "'Planning Under Pressure' is simply the best book to come out of any problem structuring methodIt is a model of lucidity, organization and presentation." Jonathan Rosenhead, Professor of Operational Research, London School of Economics OF THE FIRST EDITION "'Planning Under Pressure' is an extraordinarily useful text for students of planning who are bent on applying economic rationality to the constraints of real life practice." Donald Schon, Professor of Urban Studies and Education, MIT
John Friend is co-author of two earlier books on strategic choice and inter-organizational planning. Gradually forsaking his early schooling in mathematics, he spent a decade in industrial operational research before joining the Tavistock Institute in 1964. Since becoming a freelance consultant in 1986, he has held visiting research professorships at the universities of Sheffield and Lincoln. He has recently developed interactive software based on the Strategic Choice Approach, while also pioneering the use of participatory decision-centred methods in international development and community empowerment. Allen Hickling has a professional background in architecture and city planning, and practised in North America before joining the Tavistock Institute in 1971. From 1980 he worked for two decades as an independent decision process consultant, focusing in particular on multi-cultural projects to engage stakeholders in the development of environmental policies at local, national and international levels. He has designed and facilitated planning workshops in 29 countries in six continents, while introducing many of his collaborators to the skills of process management he has acquired.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780750663731 |
| ISBN 10 | 0750663731 |
| Title | Planning Under Pressure |
| Author | John Friend |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 2004-11-09 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
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