We need COUNTRY-LEVEL SWOT ANALYSIS/BALANCED SCORECARD to help achieve tangible, quantifiable & measurable progress in Jordan (and/or other Arab middle-east countries)
Despite claims that this has already been done, I tend to believe all past/current efforts still fall short of what I am talking about.
- The extent of the effort is huge when it is at the national level where we talk about all ministries/government departments in the public sector, along with all key enterprises in the private sector , with some binding synergy between all. This is why I am saying I am sure it has not been done yet, certainly not at this level.
- The quality of the effort is also questionable; even at the single entity level. From my observations, this is usually rushed as a last-minute "boiled egg" exercise to fulfill a formality or satisfy a request/mandate from someone. I have my deep doubts in the value of such exercises done this way.
- I am not aware of any national "country-wide" effort like this in the whole Arab world. If you know differently, share the information with me and prove me wrong. I would be happy to hear that. The width and depth of such an initiative would be just overwhelming and things like this don't go unnoticed. We would have heard of such a thing.
- One of the serious issues/challenges in such an effort has to with the quality of such work. We all know of the "garbage-in/garbage-out" syndrome. So regardless of how good the tool being used, methodology and approach, the use of low-quality data much below the expectation ( honest, factual, complete, up-to-date, valid, relevant, accurate, precise, numeric, measurable, verifiable) would get us for sure into the quality issue.
- Moving from the genetic to the specific, and focusing on the details, the devil is in the details as they say. This could be another overwhelming dimension of the challenge that we are facing with such a national-level effort
- Turning ideas into actions and focusing on "how-to" aspects of getting things done. This required proper planning and good execution of the plan with clear management, monitoring, measurement and reporting to make the proper analysis and take necessary adjustments/corrective actions accordingly.
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