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The Strategic Planning Process begins with when those in leadership decide that it is necessary to define a vision for the future. This can be in the form of (though not limited to) a business deciding on a new product to take to the market, reviewing the impact of a competitor, or simply a company trying to bring focus to a myriad of possible paths.

The process is generally defined as follows: Continue Reading…

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Are you about to embark on a journey of change for your company involving new or upgrades to computer systems and applications? Then you may want to use this document as a model to help you achieve success in your time of transition. This model is called the SERUM (Strategic Planning, Evaluate Need, Review Software/Hardware, Undergo Transformation, and Manage Change) method. Below you will find the details of each section.

It is recommended that you pay special attention to Manage Change section of this document, as you go through this process, your staff, your clients, and your management team will all have to deal with a great amount of change. Continue Reading…

About six years ago I developed a methodology for helping companies large and small to work through process improvement. I gave the system an acronym called CAPRI, and the motto was “Shortening Up Top to Bottom Process” The definition or CAPRI is this – “CAPRI in itself is not a process improvement system, people are the process improvement system. CAPRI is rather a methodology for reviewing and documenting computer application production processes in order to move from initial state to future state in the process improvement cycle”.

That’s a lot of words that basically means how do we get to where we want to be from where we are now. Continue Reading…