Wednesday, September 12, 2007

20-20, Learnings for Organisations

The flavor of the season is 20-20 cricket match.
Suddenly the game has changed. What One day tournaments did to Test Matches, 20-20 can do the same to the One dayers.
So what has really changed. If the recent win of South Africa over West Indies is any indication of things to come, no score will be defensible. What this is in turn will do is change the mentality of cricketers. They will now approach the One dayers and Test Matches with the same attitude. Imagine a team needing 400 runs or more to score on the last day of a test match, the result would have been a foregone conclusion - a draw. But now the same players who have managed to score more than 200 runs in 20 overs will definitely have their sight on winning the match with 80 mandatory overs on the last day.
Hmm. So why should this interest any Business organisation?
Well imagine what this mental approach does to your 5 year, 1 year business plans. While an organisation will remain comfortably cocooned with their long term business plans, suddenly an upstart will do a 20-20 on them, changing the rules at the speed which will be difficult to match unless one is prepared.
Time to do a 20-20 to your business plans, eh?

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