praedico

Praedico (Latin – to foretell, advise, notify, predict, give warning)

“Good Spirit, assure me that I yet may change these shadows you have shown me, by an altered life!”      

(Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens)

Planning frightens many people.  They believe they need special training or skills to produce a plan that likely already exists in their minds or in notes on their desk  - and the minds and desks of their employees and colleagues as well.  The process is much simpler that you may think; but it can also produce the most powerful results – knowledge!  With knowledge, there is less unknown and therefore less fear, and with less fear there is better decision making and less risk.

The key that is often missed in planning (especially strategic planning) even by professionals, is the analysis of existing data.  And what leads to this in many cases is the lack of organization of historical data.  Too often teams of managers get together to form a plan and lacking significant historical data, begin to make decisions based upon their perceptions.  This is subjectivity (what someone thinks, based upon data or not), and while important, cannot upstage the more critical information source, existing organizational data, the only source of objectivity.  Objective data is only what it is – not filtered, not skewed and not subject to personal interpretation.  That is how Praedico and the Praedico Process was formed.

This process will work for any organization.  For business and for-profit entities, I have found the measurement of non-financial goals is non-existent and financial analysis is quite weak.  For non-profits entities, this is even more magnified – so much of what we do keeps non-profits in mind.  We have found that many decisions made by non-profits are based upon non-economic data.  Much of this non-economic data is not collected properly and analyzed.  At Praedico our process allows you to organize and analyze your objective and subjective data, prioritize your goals and objectives and make a plan that ultimately may lead to a strategic plan or at least long range planning.  

The Goal

Using your plan, you can forecast a “Spirit of Christmas yet to come”.  And only then can you “change the shadows by an altered life”.