State planning

Examples of State planning in the following topics:

• The Virginia and New Jersey Plans

  • In the Constitutional Convention, the Virginia Plan favored large states while the New Jersey Plan favored small states.
  • Large states supported this plan, while smaller states generally opposed it.
  • Paterson's New Jersey Plan was ultimately a rebuttal to the Virginia Plan .
  • The less populous states were adamantly opposed to giving most of the control of the national government to the more populous states, and so proposed an alternative plan that would have kept the one-vote-per-state representation under one legislative body from the Articles of Confederation.
  • Under the New Jersey Plan, the unicameral legislature with one vote per state was inherited from the Articles of Confederation.

• Socialism and Planned Economies

  • Variations range from social democratic welfare states, such as in Sweden, to mixed economies where a major percentage of GDP comes from the state sector, such as in Norway, which ranks among the highest countries in quality of life and equality of opportunity for its citizens.
  • A planned economy is a type of economy consisting of a mixture of public ownership of the means of production and the coordination of production and distribution through state planning.
  • Economic planning in socialism takes a different form than economic planning in capitalist mixed economies.
  • The command economy is distinguished from economic planning.
  • Most notably, a command economy is associated with bureaucratic collectivism, state capitalism, or state socialism.

• The Virginia and New Jersey Plans

  • The less populous states were adamantly opposed to giving most of the control of the national government to the more populous states and so proposed an alternative plan that would have kept the one-vote-per-state representation from the Articles of Confederation under one legislative body.
  • Large states supported this plan and smaller states generally opposed it.
  • The plan proposed:
  • Ultimately, the Virginia Plan was used, but some ideas from the New Jersey Plan were added.
  • House of Representatives, apportioned by population as desired by the Virginia Plan, and the Senate, granted equal votes per state as desired by the New Jersey Plan.

• Marketing Plan Elements

  • For example, the startup may not state exactly where it plans to spend its advertising funds due to its ever-changing enviroment.
  • For example, the startup may not state exactly where it plans to spend its advertising funds.
  • This element of the marketing plan states what the organization plans to achieve through the implementation of the marketing plan.
  • The goals may be stated in terms of profits or market share, for example.
  • Exhibits will appear at the end of your marketing plan and will provide the details that back up what you stated in the main part of your marketing plan.

• Constitutional Issues and Compromises

  • States with a large population, like Virginia, would thus have more representatives than smaller states.
  • Under the New Jersey Plan, the unicameral legislature with one vote per state was inherited from the Articles of Confederation.
  • Unsatisfied with the New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan, Alexander Hamilton proposed his own plan.
  • Hamilton's plan advocated doing away with much state sovereignty and consolidating the states into a single nation.
  • In a sense it blended the Virginia (large-state) and New Jersey (small-state) proposals.

• The Marketing Plan

  • A marketing plan can be part of an overall business plan.
  • Though outlined in a marketing plan, these departments are not the focus and are mentioned only in terms of how they will help achieve stated marketing goals.
  • The plan must be:
  • Clear - stating exactly what is to be done in unambiguous terms.
  • Plans usually target:

• Advantages of a Marketing Plan

  • A marketing plan helps remove the fog and barriers to vision.
  • Marketing plans help organizations to:
  • Thus, a marketing plan can serve as a rallying point for employees.
  • The marketing plan, which is a written document, does the job.
  • With a marketing plan, the organization knows the road to follow to reach its stated goal.

• Defining Strategic Planning

  • Strategic planning generally deals with at least one of three key questions:
  • Draw: What is the ideal state or the desired end state?
  • What is the gap between today's situation and the ideal state, and why?
  • Think: What specific actions must be taken to close the gap between today's situation and the ideal state?
  • Assess the definition of planning in context with strategy and the various planning process approaches

• Employee Retirement Income Security Act

  • ERISA also does not cover plans maintained outside the United States primarily for the benefit of nonresident aliens or unfunded excess benefit plans
  • Requires plans to provide participants with plan information including important information about plan features and funding.
  • Requires plans to establish a grievance and appeals process for participants to get benefits from their plans.
  • Kennedy created the President's Committee on Corporate Pension Plans.
  • ERISA does not require employers to establish pension plans.

• Writing a Lesson Plan

  • Lesson plans can obviously follow a number of different models, but the following scheme usefully divides a lesson plan into five key parts: objective, introduction, input, activity, and review.
  • The objective states the standard from the instructor's curriculum guide: "to understand how to change a fraction into a decimal" might be an example of one such objective.
  • Lesson plans are an important part of an effective classroom.
  • (Hence the presence of the "introduction" component of each and every lesson plan).
  • Students also benefit from well-designed lesson plans, as such plans that allow students to focus on the material to be learned, removing any uncertainty about what is to be learned on any given day.