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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

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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/xR1MuTfCFm4


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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?

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