long-range planning
Thinking years ahead
Long-range planning is the process of setting goals and strategies that extend years or decades into the future.
It contrasts with short-term planning by emphasizing big-picture objectives over immediate concerns: The company's long-range planning includes expanding into Asian markets by 2035.
Government agencies, corporations, and military strategists engage in long-range planning to anticipate challenges and allocate resources accordingly.
- strategicDeliberately planned for advantage
- big pictureOverall perspective on things
- master planOverall strategic framework
- foresightAbility to anticipate futures
- five-year planHalf-decade strategic roadmap
vision · roadmap · horizon · blueprint · think tank · forecast · decade · goals · trajectory · milestones · projections · sustainability · legacy · generational wealth · investment · infrastructure · pension · retirement
- foresightforesight, precognition, futurology, forethought, premonition
- forecastingforecast, prediction, prognosis, outlook, estimate
long-range planningshort-term thinking
Focus on immediate outcomes
tactical planning · nearsightedness · short-term planning · myopia · short-sightedness
long-range planningcrisis management
Handling urgent threatening situations
firefighting · knee-jerk reaction · improvisation · winging it · playing it by ear
long-range planningspontaneity
Acting without forethought
impulsiveness · flying blind · muddling through · unpreparedness · aimlessness
range, planning, longer, longest, longing, lengthen, prolong, prolonged, elongate