Resolutions for 2010: Getting Ready for 2010 just now

My, how times change!

In the old days, I’d get twitchy if our planning group’s attention hadn’t turned to readying for the next year’s planning by April with completion targeted for early September. Amid a changing business environment, however, those dates got progressively later until the prospect of nearly coincident planning left us unphased.

At the Frost & Sullivan event I participated in during the first week in November, attendees were asked who was still working on 2010 plans. Based on the large percentage of hands raised, it looked like many companies have pushed back planning efforts much later.