“In Strategic Doing, metrics play a different role. We use metrics to facilitate learning. Whereas strategic planning is a deductive process of thought and action, Strategic Doing using inductive reasoning. We learn as we do. Metrics provide a convenient tool to accelerate our learning. With them, we figure out what works. Without them, we would be lost. Accountability in Strategic Doing comes through transparency and the mutual interdependence embedded in the relationships of the network. Forget command and control. It does not work in open networks. Mutual trust becomes the fuel for economic transformation. ” —Ed Morrison
Planning is always a kind of prognosis while doing really shows what works. Still, what works today might not work anymore next week – just have an eye on the complexity around that certain situation when you “do” this or that. Situations change real fast. Or just think of a different outcome if only one piece of that complex situation is replaced and you do again as last time. A prognosis won´t help anymore.
I very much like the presentation of how openness leads to transparency which both offer a platform to exchange knowledge and experience with the great outcome of innovation! It well shows the process of innovation.
And how efficient – it just takes 2.