REPLY Society Strategy Development (SD6928)

[SDMAIL Kim Warren]

Posted by  "Kim Warren" <Kim at strategydynamics.com>

Jack has the purpose here just right. The ultimate aim is to end up with
the widest possible set of plausibly achievable outcomes, along with
some equally plausible actions and policies to bring them about - rather
different than the common purpose of strategy to 'close down' on hitting
one or two key objectives. 

Intriguingly, as this discussion develops, it rather looks like SD
itself can be just the tool for accomplishing this widely expansive
future - not something that any other strategy tools I know of could do.
Keep the ideas coming !

A focus on outcomes is certainly important, but no harm in also raising
intermediate achievements that may be necessary pre-cursors to those
outcomes.

It occurs to me that I may be making an assumption that could be
'steering' others' contributions - which I am trying not to do - that
assumption being that 'we' want SD to have widespread and substantial
impacts on the world around us. I am just working on a strategy for
another professional association - coincidentally almost identical in
scale to SDSoc - and their over-riding purposes are to serve the
interests of their professional members and to grow that number. If
anyone has wishes of that kind for the future of SD, please don't
hesitate to throw them in.

Kim
Posted by  "Kim Warren" <Kim at strategydynamics.com>
posting date  Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:28:27 +0100