Usually, account planning, the function responsible for gleaning consumer insight and inspiring creative ideas, is the purview of the ad agencies alone.

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The new planning office's function is to integrate all these efforts and make them operational.

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If you believe that development planning is a valuable managerial function, just make it a priority and carve out the minutes and hours for it.

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They're also planning to launch an immediate delivery function in November for customers who like to shop in season instead of months ahead, in the typical retail cycle.

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To them economic growth and low unemployment are simply a function of allegedly wise central planning whereby 4% GDP growth and 5% unemployment can essentially be conceived in a lab.

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But its function is two-fold: planning tool and beautifully photographed coffee-table book.

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