Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.961227155746.26319E-100000@dante> Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 15:59:17 -0700 From: "J.C. WANDEMBERG" <mailto:juwandem@NMSU.EDU> Subject: Re: Projects that don't work To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
This exerp from an article included in our web site might be useful. =============== The search for effective strategic planning is over
by Steven Cabana - Whole System Associates, Fred Emery and Merrelyn Emery- Australian National University
It is now possible to create organizations in which individuals can fully utilize their mind, heart and spirit; where the values, expectations and highest ideals of individual members are embodied in the structure and mission of the organization.
Today, people are also able to transform their enterprises into ones that continually reinvent themselves and improve performance via a learning process that produces an ongoing and active adaptive relationship between itself and its ever changing uncertain environment. We can now transform maladapted bureaucratic, hierarchical, autocratic organizations into highly innovative, flexible and adaptive organizations because of two practical and field tested methods: participative design and the search conference.
Over the past forty years we have conducted both theory development and field research (begun by Fred Emery) which have now produced these two methods which create effective, flexible and adaptive organizations. These methods use outside consultants only to help your organization gain access to and reliance upon your own resources and capabilities.
In this article we share the field tested principles and theory which make the search conference, as we have developed it, a highly effective method to create strategic plans.
If you are tired of magical visions, losing market-share, plans that sit in file drawers, people working at cross purposes, treading water and going nowhere, then the search conference will bypass these problems. It is systemic, reliable, replicable and will produce plans that will work - plans that people will want to implement. The search conference will give you the capability to discern the meaningful variables (and relevant trends) and successfully adapt your enterprise to the turbulent and uncertain environment of today and the foreseeable future.
To assert that we have a method to help people deal with environmental uncertainty and turbulence is of little use unless we share a common understanding of this uncertainty. Therefore we will begin by sharing our understanding of uncertainty in the environment of business, government, society and communities.
=============== Best regards,
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