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What's the purpose of strategy statements and other "corporate plans" in office culture (self.asklemmy)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Touching_Grass to c/asklemmy

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What exactly is accomplished when corporate culture sits everybody down and has a power point about the strategy, business goals for the next year.

Stuff like saying "our new plan is focusing on areas like key player, resilience and fast resource adaption to better serve customers". Stuff that seems super abstract and boil down to "worker faster or harder" or saying that whats important to the company are "customers, excellent products and people who make products" but said over an hour and mixed in with corporate jargon

It seems like a ton of work goes into these things but its all not usable information. So what is it that these scrum master project managers and higher executives hope to achieve at the end of these calls?

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[–] Touching_Grass 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I meant more like abstract business phrasing that is stuff like 'aligns with lean principals' or 'improve efficiencies through cost driven metrics' stuff that sounds like a high school essay written by a student adding as much fluff to every sentence and ending up with whole sentences that didn't need to be said.

[–] garbagebagel 1 points 10 months ago

I mean, Lean as a methodology is meant to improve efficiency so it makes sense that they'd want to follow those principles, but the issue is (at least in my business) that people don't actually know or understand those principles so they're not followed well and it does just turn into random buzzwords.

In theory, project management and the push for efficiency through certain (what might seem like useless) planning measures actually does make for a smoother, better work environment. In reality, very few people understand any of it and worry more about instant results and ignore long-term plans, making any discussion of the topics totally irrelevant and useless.