Can Beyond Budgeting work in the public sector?
The Customer Contact Center in the Norwegian social services organisation NAV abolished cost budgets. Amazing results. Up to 50% cost reductions! Read more in my new book. https://t.co/m5fwIBGXMY
Beyond Budgeting is challenging the two main assumptions behind traditional management; the future is predictable and people can’t be trusted. Very seldom true!
If your management model assumes your employees can’t be trusted, you are in big trouble. If it also assumes that the future is predictable, you are in even bigger trouble.
The budget is ‘the elephant in the room.’ An organization can never be truly agile unless you also address that budget mindset, and that process. It is necessary but not sufficient.” #beyondbudgeting@stevedenning
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Hope is the only strategy left to estimators. Great project managers don't trust estimates. They work hard, every day to remove risks and reduce scope. As stated in the #NoEstimates book: scope management is the only tool that will help you deliver on time.
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What’s past is past, nothing can change that. But the future can be different if we choose to make it so. We have to cultivate a vision of a happier, more peaceful future and make the effort now to bring it about. This is no time for complacency, hope lies in the action we take.