Operational planning is a critical part of a manager or small business owner's job in a small company. A company's leaders must set goals and develop a plan for work activities, or operations, ...

Both operational guidance and operational planning help businesses achieve operational success. Operational guidance establishes codes of conduct and ethics for the organization. Operational planning, ...

This is a revised column from one that Dr. Chaman Jain, the editor of the Journal of Business Forecasting (JBF), recently asked me to write. It discussed the relationship between strategic and ...