Dallas Section Meeting

Topic: Strategic planning and intersections with life: A new approach to execution in strategic planning

• What is strategic planning? How does it differ from “normal” operations planning? Personal Interfaces with Strategic Planning in the corporate world and real life.
• Is there strategic planning after retirement? Is there a life after retirement? Yes, there can be. Life can be more fruitful and meaningful than found in a previous working career.
• Assisting a pre-Soviet entity to re-establish itself after operating underground for years. How to organize after being suddenly liberated from the restrictive environment in the Soviet Union.
• Assisting in the vigorous growth of a religious entity and its university in Ukraine and outside? The Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) now has the highest average test scores of entering undergraduate students of all universities in Ukraine.
• In so doing, developing a new strategic planning execution methodology to quantify progress towards change, establishing goals, & measuring progress by using the perceptions of selected participants/observers, identifying deficiencies for further action, and generating a plot of progress vs. expectations.
• Such a method can be used for strategic planning in any organization. The developed technique dramatically simplifies and shortens typical SWOT analysis planning. This methodology has been used to realize change for several other entities over the past ten years.
• Samples of previous projects will be presented, showing progress plots for four clients.

Speaker: Guy Camarata

Former Executive Vice President, Caltex Petroleum Corporation (CPC), Members of the CPC Board of Directors, Director of Software Systems Associates International, and Director and Chair of Ukranian Catholic Education Foundation. Education includes BS in Chemical Engineering, Purdue University (1960) and Ph.D. from School of Hard Knocks.