While the exact planning process may vary from team to team, we’ve found that first aligning on these values leads to more consistent results. We’ve identified four values that are essential for any team to adopt when long-term planning, such as focusing on outcomes over outputs and learning over comfort. AP asks folks to plan as if they’re wrong and it encompasses a series of practices meant to ensure you are less wrong, faster.Ī comprehensive introduction to NOBL’s Adaptive PlanningĪdaptive Planning is best introduced with its core values and essential practices: Titans and visionaries have been wrong, and so will you. This isn’t some personal failing, it’s simply the nature of reality today. In the long term, without reflection, you will be catastrophically wrong. In the short term, you will be a bit wrong. Our approach borrows heavily from the Agile software development movement (including the scaled agile framework), is inspired by Bayesian reasoning and workflows, and of course, respects many still-relevant lessons from traditional planning.Īdaptive Planning (AP for short) is grounded in a simple premise: you will be wrong. Starting in 2019, NOBL began leading our clients through our alternative: Adaptive Planning. Or to put this another way, I was insufficiently curious in this interview.There are many adjectives we could use to describe the business landscape of the last decade, some heavily overused-but one word we’d never use is “certain.” As the world has become faster, flatter, and yes, hotter, many have rightly criticized traditional strategic planning as being unresponsive to changing demands, but few alternatives have been suggested. It’s always a chance, more vividly, to get out of our heads into that of the respondent. But the very point of ethnography and the thing it does so well is to discover things you don’t think and hadn’t ever thought to think. And yes, inevitably you are going to speak from what you know. This interview might stand as a grievous example of “leading the witness.” I was shocked when listening to it again to hear that my questions were more about me and less about Bud. My assumption is that we are all works in progress working on a work in progress in a work in progress, and that to listen to one another as we configure works1, works2 and work3 is interesting. I am hoping to do more of these interviews. autonomous, free to discover an idea and test it.customer obsessed (prepared to “leave the building” to find out more.?:? Nobl aims to construct core teams with 4 properties (Because they can’t navigate the future, they can’t create value, without that autonomy. The point of the exercise find their strength, not assume their weaknesses. Bigness is not dying, it’s once more on the rise.ġ1:56 Bud is concerned that with this culture inside, the culture outside (i.e., American culture) could narrow and something like a 50s monocultureġ1:18 organizations are inclined to treat employees like errant children or robots. The point of Nobl is to restore that choice.ġ0:20 Bud is concerned that, all the noise to the contrary, we are actually moving away from small startup entrepreneurialism. (Amazon is the case in point.)Ħ:43 Nobl believes that companies take human choice away from teams. This was not the “safe to fail” experiments the world now holds dear.Ĥ:20 companies are having to learn to both optimize and futurecast, and that these are opposing challenges.Ħ:00 there is a tension in the corporation between pushing the innovation team too far away or holding it too close. In this 10 minutes of interview, Bud talks about the following thingsĠ0: 37:00 mark (~) that with his new company Nobl Collective, he is learning how to configure the culture inside a company to articulate it with the culture outside the company.Ġ0:58:00 the digital disruption changes these things in successionġ:39 On joining the world of advertising and why he left.ģ:43 the thing about that very famous Oreo campaign (that it took 6 different agencies, and a lot of money). This’s because while I know the future is badly distributed (in Gibson’s famous phrase), I fervently believe it must be somewhere in the near vicinity of Bud Caddell. Whenever I have the chance to talk to Bud Caddell, I take it.
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