Can the documentation in Simplified Strategic Planning be too cursory?
While encouraging brevity, the Simplified Strategic planning process recognizes the need for appropriate documentation. Documentation assures thoroughness and thoughtfulness. It is essential that everything that goes into the document should be done so from the perspective of making it useful as a management tool. This requires that the team be able to take complex thoughts and to boil them down to their essence. This will put them in a form that can be easily assimilated by the planning team. You should never include details that team members will not read or nor refer to again. Back up material is fine but remember that complexity and sophistication are the enemies of efficiency. Every question that is posed in SSP is critical and should be given thoughtful consideration. The key is to translate these thoughts into “sound bites”: that will allow managers to keep the concepts front and center and to act on them. ” + linktext + “”) //–> .
