Some overly idealistic goals, plans and objectives I wrote
up in the early 1990's, and otherwise based on ideas I had in the
1980's and possibly as far back as the 1970's. Not sure of the date of
the source for the original blog post, but I checked through my files
and found individual Quattro Pro files (*.wq1) with a linked summary
file dated 1992, then single Quattro Pro workbook (*.wb1) dated 1994,
then another dated 1998. The year 1998, I believe is just the year I
converted most Quattro Pro workbooks to MS Excel 97. Therefore the
plans have basically been ignored since 1994, briefly viewed
again when transfered into TreePad business, which would have been some
time after [25/01/2010]. Since it is in TreePAD business, which I use
for writing most things, I figured maybe I ought to read and
revise the plans.
The Goals were originally wrote up in either WordStar (CPM/80), or
WordPrefect (MS DOS), or possibly simple plain text files most likely
using Turbo Pascal 3 (CPM/80). These goals were eventually imported
into a spreadsheet (Quattro Pro) so that times and costs could be
added, thus turning the goals into plans.
Posting on my blog so that I can review and see if actually
achieved anything {or what I did instead}, and otherwise assess whether
any of it is practical or achievable: and add comments to the goals
accordingly. Also so that the goals can also be revised and
transformed into something more practical. In particular some of the
plans identify articles to write, software to develop, and services to
provide: all of these items can be discussed further in its own blog
post and pointed to from the lists of goals. Such appropriate blog
posts may have already been written. Additionally others may have
independently developed and pursued ideas similar to what I had, and
actually implemented them: whilst I merely dreamed.
The original plan numbering was adopted so that could have one file for
each set of goals and plans, with a file name complying with the 8.3
conventions and also could have a linked summary sheet (Plan999). The
original numbering convention was as follows.
GOAL
SETTING
PLAN000 -MISSION STATEMENT
PLAN100 -STRATEGIC GOALS
PLAN101 -TACTICAL GOALS
PLAN102 -READING LIST
PLAN103 -WRITING LIST
TACTICAL
PLANS
PLAN110-SYSTEMS, METHODS
& PROCEDURES
PLAN120-NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANISATIONS
PLAN130-BUSINESS IDEAS
PLAN140-BUSINESS SERVICES
PLAN150-PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT LIST
PLAN180-COMPUTING
PLAN181-COMPUTER SPECIFICATION
PLAN190-MATERIALS LIST
REGULAR
ACTIVITIES
PLAN200
I don't remember the over all philosophy for the above convention,
however it was the format of the original plans that I posted. I'm
guessing that given I had no actual time frame in which do do any
of the items listed and not otherwise an over all vision, that all
was best classified as a tactical goal/plan. That is could use
numbers less than 200 for sketching out goals and ideas, and use higher
numbers 200 to 900 for more formal and realistic goals and plans, along
with standard operational procedures (sop).
Any
case this
numbering system will slowly be replaced by the following alternative
numbering system,
with the original blog posts deleted and then replaced with renamed
revisions. The initial revisions will now be a composite of the 1992
and 1994 spreadsheets, and will constitute personal goals, as have an
independent written document for my Metamorphs entity.
Goals
000 Vision/Mission
Statement
100 Strategic Goals [5 to 20 years]
200 Tactical Goals [3 to 5 years]
300 Operational Goals [1 year]
Plans
400 Strategic Plans
500 Tactical Plans
600 Operational Plans
Personal
Vision/Mission
Goals
[100] Strategic
[200] Tactical
[300] Operational
PLAN110: Systems, Methods & Procedures
PLAN120: Non-Government Organisations
Plans
[400] Strategic
[500] Tactical
[600] Operational
Business
Golden Grove Engineering Design Services
Original name intended for my fathers structural engineering consulting
business. Mostly small private jobs he did whilst still working
else where (in hydraulics), and I did whilst still studying mechanical
engineering.
Roy Harrison & Associates
My fathers actual structural engineering consulting business started in 1994, which I joined as an
informal partner (no bit of paper, no formal agreement).
My registered business name, for an organisation, that is mostly
concerned with research and development. Registered on 1st April 1996,
it has never actually traded as such: that is no expenses, no revenue
and no profits. But it otherwise produces software and reports.
The current owner of the business name: Roy
Harrison & Associates. It now represents a more formal business
agreement between myself and my father, with the both of us being
shareholders and directors.
Related Posts:
Revisions:
[25/06/2015] : Original Post {Origin date of plan unknown}
[09/07/2015] : Added more background information. And navigation bar to bottom of post.
