As a business journalist in the 1980s, I wrote about the convergence of computers and communications. Predictions were for a world of smaller, faster and more enabled hardware, and for communications systems and technology that interconnected these devices and the people using them. Well, that has certainly happened in the last 25 years.  But the rate of transformation, the scale of the change and the impact on business and personal paradigms have far exceeded the vision that was offered back then.

A current strategic planning client executive said today that our draft plan and report for his organization is "by far the most useful" he had ever seen.  Of course I was thrilled to hear this, but then I had to ponder why that would be. After all, most plans offer a strategic vision for the organization and strategies to move toward the vision, as well as address implementation.  Ours did as well.