Getting into the Starting Blocks

Here is the government's website : www.gov.za/issues/national-development-plan-2030 with all the relevant detail. Amongst the key elements, it contains the main NDP document, the Executive Summary and related Speeches.

I must still zoom into these documents. Whilst I am still busy aligning my reading schedule, calibrating my microscopes and telescopes, the following question(s)/ & thought(s)start surfacing:

• It is 2018. There are 12 years left before 2030 arrives ( just over a decade left)

• What Progress has been made to date since the initial ‘baseline’ starting date?

• How does the Score Card look? What was measured? How was it measured? Did we measure the ‘right’ stuff? How did we measure the ‘moving’ targets? What benchmarks did we use? BRICS’s? Ghana’s? Nigeria’s? Finland’s?

• It is my assumption that the NDP has been in ‘operation’ for some 20 years. With about 10 years are left, my math / project management toolbox tells me that in theory, we should have progressed by 67% approximately. My gut feels tells me that we have not even reached the 50% mark yet. What is our % of completion?

• What are the Success Stories? What are the Areas of Improvement? Where are the pockets of Excellence? How can we make the pockets of Excellence ‘fluid’ ? How can we make it easily be exported to other areas of improvement? How can we do things differently?

Let me conclude this post with my personal motto : ‘Nothing is Absolute! There is Always a Better Way to Do things’

Enjoy the rest of your long weekend and have a Happy Easter weekend. Until my next blog post, Enjoy .