REPLY Society Strategy Development (SD7119)

[SDMAIL Kim Warren]

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

This is indeed helpful Jack. It is very close to the process we
attempted to initiate in April. It is of course complexified by the
diffuse and distributed nature of our community, but the principles are
still sound [even though we don't have the opportunity to get the
hundreds of Society members and thousands of other stakeholders in one
room for 8 hours!].

Unfortunately, we have not yet moved beyond the brainstorming stage. I
would have moved us on long ago, had we received anything like the
number and scope of suggestions that might seem to represent passable
coverage of the community's interests. If we kill brainstorming now, we
would be processing a badly incomplete and partial set of prospective
objectives [by 'partial' I mean that whole domains of SD work are
under-represented]. The risk is we would end up with a set of
priorities, and a strategy for achieving them that no-one buys into. 

I do intend, as soon as I can carve out a few hours, to get a report
back out to everyone on where the contributions so far have got us to. I
have them all, and in a somewhat organised form. Please bear with me a
short while.

Kim Warren 
Posted by  "Kim Warren" <Kim at strategydynamics.com>
posting date  Tue, 1 Jul 2008 17:45:38 +0100