We have planned and initiated our Strategic Initiatives with a solid requirements specification and documented result expectations agreed to by sponsor and other key-stakeholders, but how can we make sure that we actually get what we want?
What we demand and expect is supposed to happen in the future, but we know an old saying (origin unknown) that “It’s hard to make predictions, especially about the future.”
We might get help from pure luck by hanging a horseshoe over our door such as did Niels Bohr, a famous Danish scientist and Nobel Prize recipient, who replied to a friend that asked him if he really believed that it helped: “Of course not … but I am told it works even if you don’t believe in it.”
Our plans and our ...
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