Strategic planning at the mesolevel: genesis, principles, problems and methods

Timely adoption of correct decisions at change of an economic situation and development of rational options of economic policy is one of the main conditions of effective regional management. Effective management, in turn, can not be presented without strategic planning. Foreign and domestic researchers have fully formulated theoretical and methodological bases of strategic planning. However the analysis of the most popular works on strategic planning has shown lack of uniform theoretical and practical application base of this method for the problems solution of the region. This scientific work is performed on the basis of information obtained from monographs of materials of the international and Russian scientific conferences, information help sources, scientific publications in current and periodicals, normative legal acts of the Russian Federation. It is necessary to carry to the main methods applied to this work: method of the system analysis, generalization and classification, theory and methods of decision-making, method of the comparative analysis. In the article the concept “strategic planning of the region” is added and specified, the list of the existing principles of strategic planning is expanded. Modern problems of the organization and carrying out regional strategic planning are investigated. The main methods of planning at the mesolevel with detection of their advantages and shortcomings are analyzed. On the basis of the carried-out analysis it is possible to note that when planning activity of such difficult systems as regional, not only existence of effective methods and models of decision- making, but also use of modern information technologies is necessary. Quality of adoption of administrative decisions in many respects depends on it.