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Strategic Planning with SF
and other interesting vegetables...
David Shaked,
UK SF NetworkOct 2012
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To Set the Scene...
Drain the ocean-
http://youtu.be/xR1MuTfCFm4
Dilbert importance of strategy -
http://youtu.be/U6DE93esEug
Rushed strategic plans -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfzmpM
DZk6Q
http://youtu.be/xR1MuTfCFm4http://youtu.be/U6DE93esEughttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfzmpMDZk6Qhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfzmpMDZk6Qhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfzmpMDZk6Qhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfzmpMDZk6Qhttp://youtu.be/U6DE93esEughttp://youtu.be/xR1MuTfCFm47/31/2019 SF Strategic Planning
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What brought us here?
What brought me?
What brought you?
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Miracles...
Suppose we, somehow, knew everything we
need to know about Strategic Planning with
SF:
What would be different?
How would we know that we know everything?
How would others know?
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What do we already know or have
experienced?
About Strategic Planning?
And... About Strategic Planning through SF?
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Strategy: Setting the Stage
What is strategy? StrategicPlanning?
How is strategy different fromtactics? From business
planning?
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A Story...
The Facebook path for strategic Planning
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Key Considerations for Strategic
Planning with AI
Topic choice and reframing. What might be better?
Who should be in the room?
How to run the process? Inquiry process
Generative planning
How to harvest?
How to follow up/sustain?
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SWOT Analysis
Strengths Weaknesses
ThreatsOpportunities
Where can we outperform
others?
Where can others
outperform us?
How might we exploit the
market?
What/who might take our
market?
Internal
Assessment
ExternalAssessment
Traditional SWOT Analysis for Strategic Planning
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SWOT meets SOAR
Strengths Opportunities
ResultsAspirations
What are our greatest
assets?
What are the best possible
market opportunities?
What is our preferred
future?
What are the measurable
results?
Strategic
Inquiry
Appreciative
Intent
Strategic Inquiry & Appreciative Intent
Source: Stavros, Cooperrider, and Kelley, 2003
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Where/When to use SOAR?
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Shall we give it a go?
SOARing Strategic Planning + SF...
SOARing SF...
SOARing UK SF network... Creating an SF version of SOAR...
Other ideas?
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Reflections
How was the experience?
Thinking of Strategic Planning with SF and/orAI - what do you now know that you didnt
know before? What else?
What could be your next small step?
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BACKUP
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Key Concepts of Appreciative Inquiry
What we ask determines what we find
What we find determines how we talk
How we talk determines how we see our future
How we see our future determines what we achieve
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Strategy Definition
Strategy is an articulation of the organizations
vision and direction. It is both a plan to achieve
the vision or overarching goal AND a vehicle to
create shared meaning and coordinated action.
Tony Silbert
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Strategy Definition
"Strategic planning has fallen from the pedestal it occupiedwhen it came on the scene in the mid-1960s. Strategicplanning failed because it is not the same as strategicthinking. Planning is about analysis--about breaking a goal
into steps, formalizing those steps, and articulating theexpected consequences. Strategic thinking, in contrast, isabout synthesis. It involves intuition and creativity. Theoutcome of strategic thinking is an integrated perspective, anot-too-precisely articulated vision of direction that must be
free to appear at any time and at any place in theorganization.
- Mintzberg, Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning
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SF Tools
Which one is particularly useful to Strategic Planning? How?
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AI Principles
Constructionist
Simultaneity
Anticipatory
Wholeness
Poetic
Positive
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SF Principles - SIMPLE
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Strategic Canvassing
How to link the Excellent Strategic Canvassing
process?