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Getting started: opportunity or problem perception (what really
is the problem or opportunity?) -
your personal and the client's awareness and commitment.
* Stage 1: System description (where are you now?) - identifying
and describing the
opportunity or problem to be solved the e!isting situation its
environment and its behaviour.
" Stage 2:#dentification of ob$ectives and constraints (where
would you li%e to get to andwhat stops you?) - ma%e e!plicit the
decision ma%ers& ob$ectives in relation to the problem or
opportunity and the constraints under which they must
operate
" Stage 3:Generation of routes to ob$ectives (how could you get
there?) - different ways in
which the defined ob$ectives could be achieved and that are
narrowed down to produce a set
of the most feasible options.
" Stage 4: ormulating measures of performance (how will you %now
when you have
arrived?) - the need to have a measurable means of assessing the
effectiveness of anypotential solution in achieving the desired
ob$ectives.
" Stage 5:odelling (how can you tell the outcomes?) - construct
a model which can be
used to test each route&s li%ely outcomes in terms of the
measures of performance.
" Stage 6:valuation (what are the li%ely outcomes?) - assessment
of the li%ely outcomes of
the various routes to the ob$ectives in terms of the measures of
performance ta%ing into
consideration possible deficiencies of the modelling.
" Stage 7:*hoice of route(s) to ob$ectives (choose the best) -
the point where un+uantifiable
ob$ectives and constraints are li%ely to be reconsidered.
" Stage 8: #mplementation (, go ahead) - the detailed wor%
necessary to get the
strategysystem designed to go ahead
