In my definition, a plan is neither cast in stone, nor just an intellectual exercise done because it is supposed to be done.
But what, after defining a model of your reality, and identifying the changes required and their impacts, should be part of your planning activity?
This post is part of a series, first published in May 2009.
Any organization, or organized group, whatever its purpose and composition, has what could be defined a “decision inertia”.
Any change has multiple dimensions: time, the environment were the change is carried out, the “stakeholders” (to simplify: whoever, directly or indirectly, is involved, affected, interested by a decision), etc.
In this post, we will briefly see the multiple dimensions of change, and what means managing change.
This post is part of a series, first published in May 2009.
Since 1980s, also what once were called “broadsheets” started writing often about models.
Or- how whatever you do (as a person, group, organization, society) can be fed into a model, that can then tell what you are going to do next.
Let’s say that, for the time being, this automated removal of free will is just part of science fiction.
This post is part of a series, first published in May 2009.