Is planning failure a sign of inefficient management? How can you avoid it?

is one of the reasons but among the reasons for the management's failure is:

employee qualifications

personnel management (payroll, social statements, staffing, personnel administration ...);

- training;

- social and union relationsand motivation

- careers and skills management;

- Internal and external communication

1. Failure to Meet the Challenges of Growth.
2. Excessive Change
3. Poor Communication

Planning failure is one of the  reasons. You can avoid this by being open for change and prepare with contingent plans and emergent stratergies.

Planning for failure is an exercise that will allow you no to fail. If you analyze your risks and objectively ensure you mitigate them you wil not fail as your contingencies will be in place to avoid it. 

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No, it isn't , you can avoid it by:

• putting plan B
• collect enough information
• let your team give their ideas and share their opinions

For me as captain planning is crusial, we plan our full sea passage into detail and we do take our time for this, an unplanned passage is a dangerous passage.

My advise, take sufficient time to plan, cross check it and double check it, after that start your execution, keep during the execution evaluating the situation and if needed adjust your planning accordingly.

Based on the above planning failure on its own is not for 100% a sign of ineffecient management, a plan is like it says a plan, not a guaranty to success.

Better planning does give a bigger chance to success, a manager who evaluates while his plan is being executed and adjust his plan is the kind of manager that will be reaching the desired success.

Considering there are so many reasons why plans can fail, one might wonder why ever plan at all. For one, mapping out a plan before embarking onto its implementation has plenty of benefits. It allows for a better understanding of objectives and their alignment with broader organizational goals, but it also helps identify and take into account any impediments that exist in reaching those objectives.

Planning helps reduce, and even eliminate, uncertainty, improve efficiency of operations, and find smarter ways to complete project tasks and deliverables. Studies have shown that organizations that have adopted project portfolio management (PPM) solutions, including effective project management tools to help manage projects and the portfolio, and also conduct ongoing reviews of these projects see an increased likelihood of portfolios that meet schedules, scope, quality, budget, time, and business benefits.

Well-defined project planning also provides a basis for monitoring and controlling work on the project, which is crucial to staying on top of schedules, milestones, costs, risks, and issues.

Employing effective software measurement tools therefore becomes essential, not only for early forecasting and estimates, but for measuring compliance and identifying trends and deviations along the way.

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Of course, planning failure is a sign of inefficient management, since planning is the1St., and mandatory function for any management process.

Failure in planning can be avoided by:

1- A clear vision, mission and strategic plan for the organization.

2- A clear objectives and goals for planning.

3- Initiating "planning Committee", who are responsible for building up the organization's plan from expert people whom they also can following up the plan's execution on a timely  manner, pointed out any deviation, immediately correct it and ensure to avoid same in the future.

4- Real anticipations, data and information to buildup the plan.

5- Studying the real organization's resources against plan objectives and goals.

6- Sharing all organization's departments in building their budgets as actual source for plan.

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Definitely without having a proper plan will lead to failure. And management has to face day to day problems on the issue due to lack of planning. When ever we are venturing into something new, we have to made firm planning about how to do and what to do. And we need to know where we are heading. Then only things will fall into place other wise everything is scattered and we will end up picking up each piece.