Following on – why some people think my strategic planning method is “magic”.
In Part 1 we have collaboratively developed the seven critical factors.
Delegates, prompted by a series of slides, privately weight the seven factors in terms of
relative importance in delivering the strategic outcome.
Results are then captured and are typically all over the place, each team member sees the
organization and its environment differently – this is legitimate.
Each team member briefly summarizes their view – CEO’s sometimes say “I never knew my
people were thinking that way!”
Sometimes sources of conflict are exposed and resolved.
Score performance against a 1, 3, 5 year or other timeframe (x):
Historic performance (x years ago)
Current performance (today)
Forecast performance (x years from now if we keep doing what we are doing)
Objective (where we want to be in x years’ time)
Each team member briefly summarizes their view – build common understanding.
Gives strategic trajectory where we are heading (trend line), can be very instructive.
Plus seven strategic gaps between forecast and objective.
Weighted gaps determine the 20% of the factors that will deliver 80% of the strategic value if
closed.
All very collaborative, everyone gets to share their views, build common understanding,
agreement on priorities with regard to gaps to close.
Next week – gap analysis, strategic action plan and the strategic map.
The end result is that all the top team know how they got to the plan and therefore own it at a
visceral level.
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Dr James A Robertson
The Strategy Doctor