SCALE OF IMPORTANCE

top is a goal, next is a purpose, next is a policy, then you have a plan then you have a program then you have a project and now you have an order then you have an ideal scene and then you have a statistic and then you have a valuable final product. That is the scale of importance. Now of course anybody can issue an order if there is a project which is derived from a program which is derived from a plan which is directly derived from policy. Policy is no good unless it is derived from a purpose. Skip having any plan at all if it doesn't eventually wind up in a valuable final product. Do you see that there's a band here? It's a band of dwindling authority but it also moves forward down the lines. (7012CO4 SO)