Develop a set of responses to the following “reasons” for not doing strategic facilities planning:

a. There are more critical short-term problems to be solved.

b. The right people internally are too busy to be involved in the project.

c. The future is too hard to predict, and it will probably change anyway.

d. Nobody really knows what alternatives are available and which ones might apply.

e. Technology is developing very rapidly; any decisions we make will be obsolete before they can be implemented.

f. The return on investment in strategic planning is hard to measure.