Planning that allocates a figure already decided may leave the other decisions poorly framed

If the premises arrive set from the top and the areas contribute no binding constraints, the plan may allocate a figure instead of discovering it.

Targets, budget, and ambition would form a second-order system, whose output would be the objective function of the other systems. A process in which everyone participates and no real constraint can move the result would be integrated and would lack the capacity to decide. Participating is different from deciding.

Its reopening trigger would be realized performance against projected performance. If the budget is set once and then only monitored for 12 months, nothing reopens it. Resolved poorly, this system may leave the other 8 systems poorly framed, even if each one is resolved well internally.

In a Decision System within Execution on Decision Systems, that performance is recorded and reopens the plan when it departs from what was projected.

Where does your bank record realized return for each allocation against projected return, and which decision changes when they diverge?

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