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Friday, July 09, 2004
Improvisational Planning -- Dave Pollard's been doing a series (actually a nascent book) on the care and feeding of the "natural enterprise." This one talks about strategic planning as improvisation...
"In natural enterprises, this improvisation is continuous and pervasive, and it largely takes the place of more formal, hierarchical planning and decision-making processes. It's practiced constantly and honed to a fine art. Improvisational, collaborative decision-making, and not edicts from an Executive Committee or formal policies or plans or standard operating procedures, drives most of the key actions and decisions of the enterprise. That's not to say that more formal planning is never valuable in natural enterprise. But formal plans must be very flexible and are often more useful as milestones, frameworks, creative thinking and consensus-building exercises than as rigorous decision-making and operating guidelines. Plans become mere tools, to be used or not used as the situation dictates moment to moment."
Kind of like rolling plans in the project world. Plan out in detail only as far as you can see, with a rough direction beyond. Fill in the details as circumstances allow.
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