Faced with the challenges of developing a long-term strategy for profitable growth and engaging his organization to make the strategy happen, Mike Chesser, CEO of Great Plains Energy (GPE), and his COO, Bill Downey, began with a set of beliefs to guide the strategy development effort. 1. GPE's Strategic Intent must succeed across a range of scenarios that take into account technology advances, environmental requirements, commodity price and supply changes, and even changes in the demographics of the workforce. Too often, energy companies, mistakenly predicting one scenario, invested heavily only to realize the potential for multiple scenarios over lime.
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