Strategic doing pack and action plan for Brevard County
On Monday, we conducted a second Strategic Doing Forum in Brevard County, Florida. We're working to develop strategies that accelerate the transformation of the County economy, as NASA comes to the end of its shuttle program. You can read more about it here
One of the key advantages of this approach to building strategy in open networks: speed. We conducted a strategic doing forum with about 100 people organized into six focus areas. Within each focus area, we began to define clear outcomes that can be easily measured. We next move to identifying specific initiatives and action plans. Finally, each group designated a time to continue working on their component of the plan.
On Thursday, we compiled all of these strategic doing packs into the first version of a Strategic Action Plan. We will use his plan as a framework to continue developing strategy.
Strategy in open networks is different fundamentally from the process for developing a strategy in a hierarchical organization. Most of us learned our strategy on the basis of old models of conventional strategic planning applied in hierarchical organizations.
Today the world is moving too fast for these conventional models to work. We need to do our strategic thinking in fast cycles in order to build resilience and figure out what works.
To help you see how a loose network can quickly do the complex thinking underlying a strategy, I'm including one of the strategic doing packs that we used this week and the first version of our strategic action plan.
