On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:35:50 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
Top-level mission statements and strategies never (or only extremely rarely) come in the SMART format:
Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Timely
Right, but those are the questions that a mission statement/strategy beg to be asked, and they need to be answered even if they're not part of the actual declaration.
In the average organisation, the SMARTness (if practiced at all) is usually only introduced at the lower levels, i.e. departmental and personal.
I think your question "for whom" is covered by the strategy proposal, as well as "how will we achieve that goal", but I have not seen any suggestions on how to measure our success.
That's one of the biggest challenges I think we're facing (I've also not seen any suggestions on how to measure success, and I realise that I've not also made any suggestions along those lines either - it's not an easy thing to identify measures for). If we can't measure our success, then by definition we don't know if we're being successful in achieving the goal. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org