text: **Building on Strengths**
  **and Being Innovative**
  
  “The Planning Group covers a great deal of corporate 
  
  territory and handles a number of key responsibilities 
  
  within Nissan. Our Corporate Planning division, for 
  
  example, oversees strategy, setting the Company’s 
  
  long-term course under the Executive Committee’s 
  
  direction. The two creative divisions, Design and 
  
  Product Planning, create value for the customer. 
  
  Together, those three divisions form the core of our 
  
  group, surrounded by several other key divisions. 
  
  Market Intelligence supports Design and Product 
  
  Planning in customer understanding. The people in 
  
  Process and Resource Management provide the 
  
  practical direction and restraint a company of our size 
  
  must have when deploying its resources. And Program 
  
  Management drives the implementation process, 
  
  turning the work of all the other divisions into reality. 
  
  The role of Corporate Planning is to look to the 
  
  future and devise ways to take advantage of the 
  
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  W  business opportunities we identify. In the past, the 
  
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  division relied primarily on three-year plans such the 
  
  Nissan Revival Plan and NISSAN 180. That strategy 
  
  served the interests of Nissan stakeholders well. 
  
  The Company is now sound, and the power and 
  
  constancy of vision Corporate Planning provides will 
  
  determine how well Nissan maintains its strength. 
  
  However, in addition to the mid-term plan, we have 