Most Business Decisions Are Made Once and Never Looked at Again
A decision gets made, in a meeting, or in the owner’s head, and then it disappears. It isn’t written down. It isn’t communicated to the people who have to carry it out. Nobody checks back later to see whether it worked. The business runs on whatever the owner remembers deciding, and everyone else is guessing.
The Dynamic Planning Project
A guided process for implementing a documentation format that turns decisions into a plan the business actually uses.
Making Dynamic Planning work means installing a format that does five things: documents the decisions that get made, communicates the goals behind them to the people they affect, describes the actions taken to reach them, monitors the results, and revises the plan as those results come in.
The format itself can be as simple as a spreadsheet or as involved as a customized software application, the right choice depends on the size and complexity of the business, not on what looks impressive.
The Dynamic Planning Project guides owners through building and installing that format, start to finish.
Why a Consultant
A format only works if the people using it actually use it, and that takes more than handing someone a template. I help owners design a format that fits how their business actually makes decisions, then work with them through the first cycles of documenting, communicating, monitoring, and revising until it’s a habit, not a project.
I’m Rick Riebesell. I developed the Dynamic Planning methodology described in Owning a Business, and have spent decades helping business owners make and communicate better decisions.