Management planning and data from the archives.

An efficient management uses the planning process to give an organisation or department a purpose and direction, and develop the potential for effective growth within the organization or department. The availability of information and the quality of information are vital factors in the thinking process for strategy formulation, and the development of a corporate strategy. Data from the in-house archive can be used by the management during the planning process, in order to help define situations and circumstances, determine aids and barriers to the planning process, recognise and understand past and present goals and objectives, develop new goals, objectives, programs, and sets of actions, and then identify communication flows and networks.