Organizations Can Seize Their Futures 500 Days at a Time

摘要

farious mechanisms exist to achieve success, but the power and benefit of 500-day plans have been proven repeatedly. Organizations can use this approach to plan and quantitatively measure the success of transformational activities even during the most dynamic of times. I can speak of the benefits firsthand. When I was assigned as the director of command and control systems at U.S. CentralrnCommand (CENTCOM) in June 1995, I found a command with primary headquarters in Florida and main area of responsibility (AOR) in the Middle East -a separation of nearly 9,000 miles. Personal computers were almost nonexistent across the AOR and in limited use within the headquarters itself, where they were connected over a secure local area network.