Summary:
Interesting article on balancing creativity and skill competence in the area of strategic planning. The author suggests the following: – many companies are turning away from their strategic planning to focus on short-term issues. His prediction is that this will lead to negative outcomes. This raises an interesting prespective on what America needs to do to recover from the current recession.
The author gives several examples starting with the entertainment and travel industry. He emphasizes the term competency-based strategic, but needs to develop the concept further. It is unclear exactly what he means.
Here’s an example from the blog:
“Despite what people might tell you, strategic planning is an art. As with other arts, you can do better with good training and tools, but at the end of the day, there is no replacement for skill and experience.
In times of economic turmoil – or even just turmoil in a specific industry – many companies turn away from their strategic planning to focus on short-term issues. In many cases this is warranted – your course may not be as important if the ship is sinking – but in far more cases, this departure can lead to bad strategy and failure.”
Article link http://simplifiedstrategicplanning.blogspot.com/2009/10/state-of-art.html
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