| 21st CENTURY ENVIRONMENTAL SCAN |
NEW STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS
(Leadership-Planning-Change) |
| 1. Dynamic Environment |
1. Importance of regular environmental scan - do first |
| 2. Desire for clear and broader results |
2. Measurement focused—"quadruple bottom line" |
| 3. Very complex world |
3. Simplicity is key—Rule of 3 of 1 |
| 4. More competitive environment/drive to commodity/price only |
4. Unique Positioning is essential—the right answer does count |
| 5. Nonlinear future environment/major disruptions |
5. Ideal Future State is the place to start — not the Current State Assessment |
| 6. More demanding customers |
6. "Data-Based Decision-Making"—planning team with an external customer orientation are key; not just senior management (support jobs) |
| 7. More skeptical and less engaged employees |
7. Parallel Process and Large-Group Annual Dept. Review Meeting—maximum involvement of rest of management/key employees |
| 8. More diverse employee culture, background, ethnicity, age and values |
8. Glue of Core Strategies and Core Values key to Cascade of Planning and implementation—with accountability of performance and rewards |
| 9. Attention span shorter/more "noise" in the world (concept of entropy - all things run down and die) |
9. Need for Monthly, Quarterly Progress Review meetings and Annual Strategic Review (and Update)—"buy in and stay in" are both key |
| 10. No one has all the answers or skills - how to make sense of all the books, fads, theories? |
10. Leadership Development done concurrently with Planning and Implementation to stay abreast of new concepts and assimilate the learning for us (Core Corporate Competency #1) |
| 11. "Long-Term" is nothing without "shorter-term" successful implementation and change linked to longer-term |
11. Create a Strategic Management System and Annual Cycle as new way to run the business (Core Corporate Competency #2) |
| 12. Complexity within all organizations |
12. Need "Strategic Business Redesign for "Watertight Integrity"—systems view, understanding and challenge of change (Core Corporate Competency #3) |
| 13. Faster pace of work and life |
13. Tailored Strategic Management System to your unique needs, from "Micro" to "Quick" to "Comprehensive" Strategic Planning |
| 14. Faster pace and variety of changes |
14. Flexibility and agility of implementation are key— "emergent strategies" a way of life ("Plan is a livingbreathing document") |
