I don't know about dams. Railways and nuclear plans - probably not so much, because of the technology changes, but in any case these are all good examples, which show that it is the stability/volatility of the environment that determines strategic planning horizon.
It is not about being a business or not - it is about basics of strategic planning. Comparisons for endowments undoubtedly should be made to non-business organizations, but the horizon for strategic planning is not determined as much by the profit/non-profit nature of our organization, but rather by the nature of the industry we're in. It just does not make much sense to create strategies and visions 100 years into the future in our case. best, dj On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]>wrote: > Dariusz Jemielniak, 18/03/2013 10:03: > >> [...]The >> >> only business I know of that relies on something close to 100 years of >> time >> horizon for strategy is forestry. [...] >> > > Seriously? What about dams, railways... or nuclear plants? (Just to use > extreme examples.) But the point is that we're not a business; good > comparisons for endowments are things like universities, libraries, > churches, red cross etc. etc. > > Nemo > > > > > -- __________________________ dr hab. Dariusz Jemielniak profesor zarządzania kierownik katedry Zarządzania Międzynarodowego i centrum badawczego CROW Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego http://www.crow.alk.edu.pl _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
