The Automated Bakery: A Study of Decision Taking Goals, Processes and Problems in Tanzania

This study seeks to examine a middle sized decision from initial impetus through implementation. Its central topic is not the automated bakery as such but the goals, processes and problems of decision taking in Tanzania as illustrated by the bakery case. In particular the effectiveness (or otherwise) of the more technical aspects of the planning process in transforming socio-political decisions into projects and operations achieving (or otherwise) the initial goals is subjected to scrutiny and ways of improving its performance suggested.