The Dynamic Analysis and Strategic Planning (DASP) Program Division of the Center for Occupational Education at North Carolina State University is concerned with its need for information about the actual operation of planning systems and the development of a planning and information system for vocational education. To this end a three part conference was held, involving practitioners of planning and planning experts, to generate information on the practice of planning and the problems and needs of planners. The report presents the data from the conferences in the form of a descriptive model, transactional in nature, of the planning process in a State agency for vocational education. Successively more detailed diagrams are used to illustrate the development of the model. The final diagram of the model is used as the organizational format for the report, with a detailed discussion of each segment, including verbatim comments from conference participants. The recommendations arising from the conference are summarized. Appendixes include the conference tasks and objectives, nine in number, the seven elements of planning, and a list of conference participants. (SA)