Avoid a Sporf Strategy by gaining some focus.

The sporf is a little like most strategy documents that I come across. It is one implement designed to serve a multitude of goals, but with one fatal flaw: you can only ever use one part of the sporf / strategy at any one time. With the sporf, things would get messy trying to use the spoon and knife and the same time. The knife and fork work quite well in sequence but physics prevents me using both at the same time as I can with the older technologies of knife and fork.

In strategy formation, we can develop a multitude of potential purposes within one document, killer vision statement or mission. But it’s important to recognise that the teams around us will only ever be able to do one thing really well at any one time. This is a lesson ignored by school systems when they expect educators to create an ever-more creative curriculum without having first tackled attitudes towards summative assessments throughout the year, for example.

It is also a challenge in some of the world’s most successful, but now stagnating, big businesses: they’ve spent decades or centuries building a reputation across a large array of devices, technologies, components or clothing, but the real strategy is working out which of the current array needs killed off to enable teams in their quest to develop something totally new, properly innovative.

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