As a result, Administration officials acknowledge that there has been little formal planning for a ground option.

The fourth, technostructure, also known as analysts, design systems concerned with the formal planning and control of the work.

This revolution appeared to break out spontaneously, without any real leadership or formal planning.

There does not seem to be any formal planning of these forts.

There is formal planning and control within data processing.

He didn't like formal planning; considered it restrictive and burdensome.

His responsibilities, of course, required formal planning, but he assigned it to others, then approved or rejected what they produced.

He stresses that formal planning can only be one of the many building blocks which determine corporate strategy.

It is important not to read Quinn as calling for the destruction of formal corporate planning or rational analysis.

Doubts about the importance of formal rational planning in organizations grew during the 1970s and 1980s.