Business Concept
Planning & Control

Planning is the process of creating and refining a plan. A plan is a proposed or intended method of getting from one set of circumstances to another. Planning is also the process of integrating the plan with other plans. Controlling is the process of making sure that everyone sticks to the plan or that the plan is altered in time if circumstances demand it.

However, every plan can go disastrously wrong. Chernobyl shows how reactor operators created the greatest nuclear disaster in history with the calm conviction that they were doing everything right.

When we have a plan, we are sure it exists because we wanted it to be. However, one of the oldest philosophical conundrums considers whether we are capable of acting freely or are bound by a predetermined chain of cause and effect – to be explored in Free Will.

"Learning the hard way" is how common parlance calls the process of learning by pain. This, however, must not be the worst method to proof, if a plan stands the test of reality. Learning by Mistake(s) at Honda shows the debate by opposing schools of business strategy about Honda's success in the U.S. motorcycle market.