The One Page Planning & Performance System is web-based tools for helping groups of people in companies effectively implement their strategic and tactical plans.  Its structure helps groups of people agree on and align around a set of strategies and objectives -- and then effectively implement those plans. 

 

The essence of the system is that each manager, executive, and key employee is asked to reduce his or her part of the typically thick corporate planning documents to a single page.  On this page they put their understanding of what they personally are responsible for doing – their piece of the company’s plan.  At a click of the mouse it is possible for any executive or manager who has access to the system to read the plans of others in the company to see what they have committed to accomplishing, and how they are coming in implementing their action plans and meeting their objectives.  

 

Focuses Everyone on Results… How much is an company-wide, pervasive, focus on results worth to your company?

 

Excites People about Planning... A WEB-based and electronic, makes the process of planning much quicker and easier on everyone. 

 

Aligns Every Level of an Organization…The process of making changes in plans to make them better is effortless since they are electronic.

 

Insures Effective Communication…A side effect of the use is that there is complete communication among the leaders of the company about what each of them is doing.  Each person’s plan, progress reports, and objective measures of performance are always being updated.

 

Supports Implementing Plans Effectively…Once everyone is up on the system, it becomes relatively easy to manage the company in terms of the plans.  Every week or two each person enters a short “progress report” statement on each of his/her action plans and every month each person on the system has to enter a hard number into the measuring scorecards for his/her objectives.  These are read by everyone prior to any management meeting.  Then management meetings focus on problem areas where numbers are not being met. 

 

Shortens Meetings…Most studies suggest that as much as 85% of meeting time is spent listening to people present status or progress reports.  Only about 15% is devoted to action planning and problem solving.  Everyone reads the status information – progress reports and scorecards – in preparation for a meeting.  The meeting focuses on what to do about problems and what to do to take advantage of opportunities. 

 

Teaches Basic Management Thinking While Doing…Just the requirement to put down the vision, mission, objectives, strategies, and action plans compels people to think in that structure.  Soon the language of results pervades the company.  This is particularly true with companies where many of the people have not had such training, such as high-tech companies at the level of project leaders.