I love Jim's article !!
Don Watkins
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On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 8:29 AM, Bryan Behrenshausen
wrote:
> ### Editor's Note ###
>
> Hi, friends! Hope your week is off to a wonderful start.
>
> This fine Tuesday, Jim Whitehurst offers his perspective on the nature
> of long-term planning in an era of digital transformation. Prognosis?
> Not good: "In today's volatile and uncertain world, our ability to
> predict and define strategic positions is diminishing—because the pace
> of change, the rate of introduction of new variables, is accelerating.
> Classic, long-term, strategic planning and execution isn't as effective
> as it used to be."
>
> Lots to chew on here, especially if you're currently working through
> your team's annual strategic plan.
>
> –B
>
> ### New Today ###
>
> Jim Whitehurst: "Try, learn, modify: The new IT leader's code"
>
> https://opensource.com/open-organization/18/2/try-learn-modify
>
> red.ht/2osXXGX
>
> Sample social media:
>
> As the pace of innovation increases, long-term planning is becoming more
> and more difficult. Let's rethink the way we respond to change."
> @JWhitehurst red.ht/2osXXGX #TheOpenOrg
>
> "We need to come up with a different solution for optimizing
> organizations for a very different economic era, one that works from the
> bottom up rather than the top down." @JWhitehurst red.ht/2osXXGX
> #TheOpenOrg
>
> "We need to cultivate environments that encourage creative trial and
> error, not unyielding allegiance to a five-year schedule." @JWhitehurst
> red.ht/2osXXGX #TheOpenOrg
>
> "If long-term planning is dead, then long live shorter-term
> experimentation." @JWhitehurst red.ht/2osXXGX #TheOpenOrg
>
> ### Previously Published ###
>
> Ron McFarland: "Designing a system that helps the best ideas win"
>
> https://opensource.com/open-organization/18/3/dalio-principles-1
>
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