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Live Webinar – August 14th, 2014 7:30 am – 8:30 am EDT
Live Webinar – August 14th, 2014 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM BT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Associaton for Project Management – APM
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Most strategies (90%) have minimal or no impact. Why?

Because most so-called strategies:

  1. Aren’t actually strategies
  2. Cannot be understood by the majority of stakeholders

A major problem in most cases is the ‘linguistics’ of the strategies.

The OpenStrategies system addresses the taxonomy, syntax and semantics of strategies; in other words; what do the strategy words mean, how should they be logically strung together and what do strategic sentences actually mean?

PRUB

The OpenStrategies system includes the validating strategies process which is built on the logical sequence of what organisations actually do i.e: ‘Organisations run projects that produce results and enable people to see them to create benefits’ (PRUB).

 Validating strategies:

  • Defines the causalities between projects, their subsequent results, their necessary uses and their consequent benefits, all linked together in the form of substrategies (i.e. “is the strategy logical?”)
  • Requires compelling cause-and-effect-evidence on the links in the substrategy to confirm that the strategy is genuinely doable (i.e. “will the strategy work?”)
  • Requires confirmation that the value of the benefits exceeds the combined costs of the projects and the uses (i.e. “is the strategy worth it?”)

So validating strategies is a simple yet profoundly powerful tool for guiding projects to produce results that will genuinely be used to create benefits. In effect, validating strategies is a succinct and powerful tool for driving benefits realisation via end-users and their uses.

Validating strategies is a subset of the overall OpenStrategies system for collaboratively developing, validating, implementing and performance managing (including ‘realising benefits’) of large-scale, multi-stakeholder, multi-topic strategies. Details can be found in Dr Phil Driver’s recently published book ‘Validating Strategies’.

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