Adaptive Strategic Planning: How Senior Leaders Deal with Complexity June 19, 2008

The era of longitudinal or scenario based planning is emerging into an era of adaptive planning. However, it's easier to say a plan must be "living" than to make that a reality.
Organizations can no longer rely on optimized strategic plans. The coordination of strategic decision-making into a cohesive plan for ongoing implementation must undergo an evolution as the complexity of issues continues to grow and the rate of change accelerates.
These issues are actively being debated within the Federal government in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and national defense concerns; within State governments seeking to address long-term structural imbalances between infrastructure investment versus current consumption; corporations in highly regulated industries (aviation, pharmaceuticals) that have less room to adjust to strategic shifts; and non-profits that can no longer rely on multi-year funding programs to support services.
Paul Masson, a specialist in organizing large, multi-party alliances to develop and deploy new technology, will share with us how one manager working in both the public and private sector moved to adaptive planning in financial services and is currently working with a large Federal organization to address this issue for the future. Paul's presentation and discussion will address:
* Concepts - What are the concepts that drive "adaptive" strategic planning?
* Methods - Can these concepts actually be applied to strategic planning?
* Decision Tools - What decision methods and tools will support this method?
* Support Systems - What are the existing and emerging systems (communication, processing, scenarios, etc) that can support the tools?
* Examples - What are real world examples of large organizations (public and private) seriously attempting to apply these concepts?

$25 members, students, affiliates, $35 all others, $40 at door.

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