Long-Range Planning Through Program Budgeting.

David Novick

Expert InsightsPublished 1968

A description of the PPB system and its contributions to the planning process. First, it establishes and makes explicit the relationships, or linkages, among the organization's goals, programs, and activities and their resource implications and financial expression in a budget. Second, PPB contributes directly to management decisionmaking by providing analyses of the consequences, in terms of estimated costs and expected benefits, of possible program decisions. The process is flexible and subtle--calling for creativity by the analyst and interaction between him and the decisionmaker during the decision process. The revolution is in the grouping by end-product rather than by administrative organization or function. (To be presented at a Working Symposium on Long-Range Forecasting and Planning, sponsored by the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development, at Lake Como, Italy, in October 1968.)

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Novick, David, Long-Range Planning Through Program Budgeting. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1968. https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P3850.html.
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