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A concept plan, sometimes called a strategic plan, or a text plan, is an outline sketch of the relationships between a set of general ideas that provides routes to action. As such it is a mind-map of the knowledge that supports a vision of the outcomes of of a set of practical operations. Traditionally, concept plans have been organised as blocks of text arranged as a set of headings with sub-headings. Diagrams are often essential components of a text plan to present an overview of its conepts and their relationships. There have been recent IT developments to help strategic managers to design, record and present a strategic plan. These are the mind manager, and the thought processor. Both types of software start the process of putting order into strategic thinking with on-screen diagrams. A mind manager lays out the main concepts and their subtopics in the form of a branching tree. Information is attached to each branch. Hypermedia links ensure that connections are made with appropriate additional information. A thought processor sets out various courses of action that the plan might take against factors that might influence the decisions. It is a knowlege base about taking action represented by lines connecting nodes, links and quantified relationships. Particular routes to action are evaluated against all factors that might affect the outcomes of the strategic plan. |
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