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This article discusses the insights gained from of a series sensus in large enterprises. The result is that people usuof observations of cross-functional planning teams in a ally resent the time required to produce acceptable plans.
The third problem is the most fundamental. When peoover 2,000 participants in 100 planning efforts over a ple are done planning, they seldom have produced anyperiod of 6 years. These efforts focused on planning of thing that they value. The resulting document is submitnew products or processes, development of strategic business plans, and consensus building around planned ted, filed, or shelved. Work goes on as it had before the organizational changes. The insights reported in this arplanning process. This is one of the reasons that people ticle emphasize the impact of computer support on plangrow to hate planning.
This article reports on a long series of efforts to help people overcome the problems just described. These efforts involved creating and implementing computer-based
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