Discovery Driven Planning – A Different & Unconventional Plan
Discovery-Driven Planning (DDP) is a planning technique that was first published in 1995, in a Harvard Business Review article written by Rita Gunther McGrath and Ian C. MacMillan.
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Discovery-Driven Planning (DDP) is a planning technique that was first published in 1995, in a Harvard Business Review article written by Rita Gunther McGrath and Ian C. MacMillan.
Most would agree that a well-planned business strategy is necessary for an organization to achieve desired business results. Business leaders in the highest-performing companies understand that, and while a detailed business strategy is necessary for successful organizational performance, it is not sufficient.
An organizational strategy is a planned effort that produces fundamental decisions and actions, which in turn shape and guide an organization, its goal and activities, focusing every plan on the future.
Succeeding in today’s business environment involves not only having a strategy designed in a way that ensures the company’s success, but also using the proper methods to make sure the strategic decision-making process will be as accurate as possible. In order to arrive at such a result, managers should be aware of the biases that can appear within organizations and what techniques they can use to control or reduce them.
One of the leading international management thinkers, Professor Robert Kaplan, from Harvard Business School, made a visit in Australia in mid September 2010 to talk about the new developments in the field of strategic performance management and Balanced Scorecard.