Amana Highway Collaborative (Scenario)
The Regional Planning Council convened a group of stakeholders, including the Department of Transportation and the Department of Community Affairs, who are interested in working together on improving a major highway called Amana Highway. Firas is the senior planner for the Regional Planning Council. Firas successfully obtained a technical assistance grant. The intent is to organize the 15 small communities along Amana Highway into an intergovernmental unit. All of the communities will share the same visioning processes of mission, objectives, and tasks. Firas is now charged with developing a strategic plan for this group, called the Amana Highway Collaborative.
-Firas told the Collaborative's members that the more current plans affect future commitments, the longer the time frame is for which managers must plan. This concept is also known as the ________.
A) commitment concept
B) length of future commitments
C) degree of environmental uncertainty
D) first principle of planning

Question

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The concept Firas is referring to is known as the "commitment concept," which states that the more current plans affect future commitments, the longer the time frame for which managers must plan.