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Foreword
It’s always a challenge to balance the strategic and tactical views of the work your
organization is doing. Too often the strategic view becomes academic and encum-
bered by the assumptions required to make some chosen methodology workable on
your specifics. Similarly, the no-nonsense tactical work involved in solving day-to-
day problems and executing projects sometimes loses sight of what’s important in
the big picture, strategic perspective.
is book presents an approach to a workable process to help an organization
maintain clarity of purpose, bridge the gap between the strategic and tactical views,
and apply structure to how it ...