We have a strategic plan...

It's been a while since I last posted. My apologies. Work has been insanely busy, with too many projects needing to be finished at the same time. 

For those of you who do not know, I work at a start-up at the Australian National University. My lovely, eccentric, crazy team of 5 make up ANU Edge - the universities 'knowledge services' arm. What that really means is we convert 'soft' (things like developing a new methodology to do roadmapping, identifying leadership etc) research into a service that we then provide to NGO's, SME's and Government. 

The group like most start-ups,  started off with a strategic plan, a budget etc...but what we have come to learn in the past few months is that  - our strategic plan is stagnant and our work dynamic. Whilst our strategic plan aimed to project what things would be like in 5 years time, what we have realised in the 6 months that we have been functioning, is that we seem to be miles ahead than what we projected. Whilst this is never a bad thing, we've realised that our strategic plan desperately needed an upgrade.

Thats when I saw this poster and thought how apt it was for us.

Coming to think of it, I think it apt for every small business out there.