 All these can ensure the efficient activation of the interactive planning process.Eriksson (2007) in Giannaris (2011) made an evaluation of IP’s empirical usefulness in the development of a medical department at a pharmaceutical company.This time as well, he devised fifteen steps “in terms of [...] Postulates of Interactive Planning, [which] were used as a guide for the actual use of [Interactive Planning] [..] and also [served] as criteria for its evaluation” (p. 4)

This is the process of determining what needs to be done to close the gaps between the desired present and the current reference projections of the organization.