ABSTRACT
The particular nature of plans as management objects is summarised by reference to current work in the field. Using Schmidt and Wagner’s notion of plans as projections of ‘constructable order’, the analysis sets out how a planning document projects a ‘constructable order’ for a proposed re-organisation. This projection is the ‘agenda in the Agenda’ of the meeting for which the document was constructed and the complementary methods used to construct and find that order are set out and described. These consist in deciphering the agenda in the Agenda, solving the synecdoche problem, following the standard format, finding a plan for the planning in the document, and resolving the modal transformations of cell entries.
