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To be able to
improve,
you must uncover the
problems and then
solve them.
This article shows
clearly where to search
for the weakest point ‒
in the roots, i.e. in
the value created for
others.
The stronger the roots,
the healthier the tree,
the tastier the fruits,
and the more people
would love to eat them. |
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Limitations of
United Nations
Development Organisations
(UNDOs) |
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Bureaucracy and
Slowness
Governmental
organizations are
over-organized and
bureaucratic. UNDOs have
to comply with
bureaucracies of all
their national
counterparts and,
thus, get too slow to keep pace with
today's rapidly changing
World.
Bias towards Procedures
Due to strict regulations, UNDOs are
procedure-focused, not
value-focused. |
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Bias towards Events
Due to the lack of strategic
resources and capabilities. UNDOs are event-oriented, not result-oriented. They
focus on organizing international gatherings and producing reports.
Follow-up activities are
usually very weak due to lack of strategic resources and over-formalized
procedures.
In addition, most country
participants have no power to make any significant changes.
Yes, it's useful to bring
together some people from developing countries. Yet the same development funds
could be used much more effectively to produce
much greater,
80/20, not 20/80 results if applied more strategically. |
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Bias towards Reports
In this over-organized
environment, many
employees having started their
carrier as
result-oriented persons
grow gradually into report-oriented
ones. |
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Bias towards
Informing about Events
instead of
Creating Value Online
Imagine a courier
service that focuses not
on delivering goods, but
on talking about how
actively their people
move around. That's what
many development
organizations do ‒ on
their
websites, they focus
on providing information
about the events they've
organized. instead of
creating greater value
for website visitors.
As a result, few people
visit their websites.
People don't want to
know how you "move
around" ‒ they want to
you to help them satisfy
their needs. |
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Collecting
Unactionable
Recommendations
UNDOs often ask meeting
participants to provide
their recommendations
without giving them any
guidance. As a result,
the participant create a
"wish list" that is
usually dominated by
unrealistic requests for
financial assistance
UNDOs cannot provide. |
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