On Tuesday 4 April the McGuinness Institute held a workshop for the Tasman District Council at the Headingly Centre in Richmond. We were invited to run a strategic planning day focusing on their long-term plan document. The document, which is required to be produced every three years under the Local Government Act 2002, discloses council activity and desired community outcomes as well as their financial strategy.

1. Tasman District Council
Strategic Planning Workshop
Wendy McGuinness, 4 April 2017

2. Health and safety

3. 5-minute quiz
1. What year was Alan Turing's famous article "Computing
Machinery and Intelligence" published?
2. In what year did the Internet host one million websites?
3. In what year was social media first used?
4. What year was Twitter launched?
5. In what year did urban dwellers become the majority of the
global population for the first time?
6. In what year did Facebook have one billion users in a single day?
7. In what year is the global population estimated to exceed
8 billion?

4. 5 minute Quiz
1. 1950 Alan Turing's famous article "Computing
Machinery and Intelligence" was published in 1950.
2. 1995 The internet hosted one million websites in 1995
(one billion in 2014).
3. 2004 Social media was first used in 2004.
4. 2006 Twitter was launched in 2006.
5. 2009 Urban dwellers become the majority of the global population for
the first time in 2009.
6. 2015 Facebook had one billion users in a single day in 2015.
7. 2024 The global population is estimated to exceed 8 billion in 2024.

6. Agenda
9.15am Welcome
What is this thing called ‘the future’?
10.45am Morning Tea
What does this look like for TDC?
1.00am Lunch and Close

7. What is the Cone of Plausibility?

8. Understanding the differences
DATA
INFOMATION
KNOWLEDGE

9. Disruptive events

10. The key components of a strategy

11. Reporting on the results

12. Strategic policy intelligence tools

13. http://florence20.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83452a77469e2019affd70524970c-pi

14. Sustaining and Empowering Factors Framework

15. An overview of the 2016TacklingPovertyNZ tour

16. A regional perspective

17. Brexit vote – A divided nation

18. The importance of continually asking ‘how’ (the onion)
21st-century skills

19. ForesightNZ Playing Cards

20. TDC

21. 1. Failure to face the problem. This usually occurs when the problem
has not been properly defined.
2. Mistaking goals for strategy.
3. Bad strategic objectives. Beware a long list of objectives that are
not prioritised or even connected to one another.
4. “Fluff”. Distrust a strategy that restates the obvious with
buzzwords. Remove the buzzwords to see what the strategy really
says.
Source: Thinkers 50 Strategy: The Art and Science of
Strategy Creation and Execution Stuart Crainer and
Des Dearlove. (2013)
Bad strategy

22. “Never underestimate the capacity of those
younger than you to surprise you with their talent.
Learn from them, and always revel in the
opportunity to combine talents to build a team.”
“See the opportunities in new directions. If you do
not change direction, you may end up where you
are heading.”
– SIR PAUL CALLAGHAN

23. Thank you