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The Focus Optimization Blog

Contributed by admin on Friday, January 29, 2010

The Problems with Most Organizational Planning Processes

 

Organizations waste huge amounts of time and money when they don't have all their key people on board with where they are heading and why.  The primary key is Involving the appropriate people in the process to assess, understand and develop strategies.  Consider that any time you put together a group of people, if you do not have clarity on where you are heading, what success looks like and on the strategies for getting there, a significant percentage of EACH person's time is spent working at cross-purposes to the others. In many organizations, this can vary from 10 or 20% to 50 or 60%, wasting not just thousands but often millions of dollars.

 

On the other hand, this may be close to parity as  a recent Harvard Business Review article  summarized a study showing that nearly 80% of organizations that have what they call a strategic plan have on the following conditions:


  • Wrong strategy, Good execution
  • Right Strategy, Poor execution
  • Wrong strategy, poor execution.
    ...And many of the rest have no real strategy in place at all.

If you see poor execution in your organization, take a look at the WHO (People) and HOW (Process)sections to address that. If it's wrong or non-existent strategy, then it's the WHAT(The Focus) you need with which you have to deal!

The Focus Optimization blog discusses the issue of how to choose the most worthwhile goals, how to do it in such a way that success is maximized and how to manage the goal achievement process..