9th M'sia Plan

Since there's been a lot of hype to this 9th Malaysia Plan, I hope what will be unveiled by Paklah sometime this week will be in line with our expectations.

Perhaps we should find time to go through the previous Plan i.e the 8th Malaysia Plan to compare between what have been done and what will be done.

Below is the link to the previous Plan.

Bear in mind that there is a distinction between a REPORT and a PLAN in my view.

A plan focuses on the future, outlining the policies and strategies to be undertaken whereas a report is a summary of what has been done or achieved in the past. Whilst I don't deny that in the formulation of a good plan, historical data will need to be throughly evaluated, what is more important is that we focus on understanding what the future plans and strategies are. So we shouldn't feel intimidated if the new Plan (as like the old one) will be a few hundred pages long. We don't need to read word by word. Just focus on the future plans/strategies for each chapter.You'd be suprised to note (as I did when I went through the section on HCM/HR in the last Plan) that some chapters were more of a report than a plan!

Secondly, it's also useful to question ourselves how detail, logical and implementable are each of the strategies that will be outlined. If not, it'll just look good on paper, but pretty useless.

An area which Paklah has given a lot of emphasis is, for example, on human capital development. So it'll be interesting to go through the chapter on human capital in the new Plan to see what's in store. Then compare that with the same section in the last Plan.


http://www.epu.jpm.my/new%20folder/development%20plan/RM8.htm