Even with the best of intentions, the strategic planning
process can get off track. Here are some pitfalls to watch for,
and avoid.
- Jumping from mission formulation to strategy development
without sufficient time to determine the critical success
indicators embodied in the mission statement.
- Top management fails to communicate the plan to the other
employees, who continue working in the dark.
- Management rejecting the formal planning mechanism and
making intuitive decisions that may conflict with the
formal plan. This also creates confusion for other
employees on how the plan is to be employed in their work
activities.
- Failing to use the plans as a standard for measuring
performance.
- Top management believing that it can create a plan by
delegating the planning function to a
"planner." While the planner may facilitate the
planning process, management must still take ownership of
the plan itself. [see Role
of the Planning Consultant]
- Failure to involve key employees in all phases of the
planning process (preparation, strategy development,
evaluation, and implementation).
- Failure to create a climate which is collaborative and
not resistant to change.
- Treating planning as something quite different and not an
integral part of the entire management process.
- Becoming so engrossed in current problems that
insufficient time is spent on long-range planning.
- Becoming so formal that the process lacks the flexibility
and creativity needed to address the uniqueness of each
company.
Did you notice how many of these pitfalls are management
related? Time for self-evaluation?
[ Implementation
Problems encountered by small businesses ]
Transformative Networking – connecting change
leaders to enable self-organized grassroots change.
http://groups.google.com/group/transformative-networking
Next Steps – While still conceptual, transformative
networking offers the possibility of leading change through the networking of
those already interested or involved in similar initiatives, effectively tearing
down existing silos of practice that exist across disciplines and fields of
work. The next step is to develop a proof of concept built on the theoretical
underpinnings above, possibly using Google Wave as the collaboration platform.
Included will be identifying the minimal structure and governance required to
enable self-organization within the network while not constraining what might
emerge. Join this initiative and help create the future of organizing -
networking communities of interest.
http://groups.google.com/group/transformative-networking
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