Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Japanese proverb
All our projects, and everything that we implement, sit within an overall framework. The framework answers the questions why we implement, where we do it, and how. It’s made up of our context, our environment and our method.
The implementation framework model (figure 17.1) shows how the different elements of our framework — the context, environment and method — fit together. It also shows what happens at the intersections of these three elements. The implementation framework is even more important at the organisational level than with our teams or individually — at an organisational level the framework has a much bigger impact. Get this wrong in one team, and the team will suffer. But get it wrong at an organisational level, and the whole business could be crippled.
Figure 17.1: implementation framework model
Context: why
Context is all about the why of any project. It includes the purpose for the organisation, and its mission and vision.
Google has had a very clear context since its inception in 1998: ‘to organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful’. It’s its reason for being, and that has made it very easy for Google to decide if a project fits its context. The vision for any project needs to fit into the overall organisational ...
