{"id":149,"date":"2017-07-26T22:24:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T22:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=149"},"modified":"2024-05-03T15:51:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T15:51:47","slug":"introduction-the-planning-cycle","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/chapter\/introduction-the-planning-cycle\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to the Planning Cycle","rendered":"Introduction to the Planning Cycle"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you\u2019ll learn to do: explain the stages of the planning cycle<\/h2>\r\nPlanning is often viewed as a linear process, with a sequence of steps taken in order. Although this is true, it is also true that at any point in the planning process it may be necessary\u2014because of changing conditions or unexpected results\u2014to go back and change earlier decisions. This section will look at planning with both a sequential and cyclical approach.","rendered":"<h2>What you\u2019ll learn to do: explain the stages of the planning cycle<\/h2>\n<p>Planning is often viewed as a linear process, with a sequence of steps taken in order. Although this is true, it is also true that at any point in the planning process it may be necessary\u2014because of changing conditions or unexpected results\u2014to go back and change earlier decisions. This section will look at planning with both a sequential and cyclical approach.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-149\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Introduction to The Planning Cycle. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: John\/Lynn Bruton and Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":21046,"menu_order":6,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Introduction to The Planning Cycle\",\"author\":\"John\/Lynn Bruton and Lumen Learning\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"920402aa-da4d-47f3-b85b-e8a79f5af42a","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-149","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":27,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21046"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1416,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/149\/revisions\/1416"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/27"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/149\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}