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Peter is the managing director of Longhaus and the primary voice of The Naked Chief blog. He founded Longhaus in 2006 following over a decade in international market research and publishing with Forrester Research and META Group (now Gartner). Over the last decade, and after personally participating in several thousand business and sales meetings, public and private presentations and research projects, and writing a few hundred articles, he has come to the conclusion that the profession of ICT analyst research is largely undervalued by the industry he serves. In the decade before starting Longhaus he was only ever asked to explain the research process (how he knew what he knew) once to a journalist and twice to a client. They just never asked. Since starting the company he and his team have been asked twice more in two years. Things are definitely improving, ICT analyst research in Asia Pacific is on the up, and Longhaus is somewhere amongst it all. Peter has also worked for international publishing conglomerates Pearson LLC., and Time Warner Inc., as a staff-writer and book reviewer as well as a strategy advisor to various CIOs of organisations rated within MIS magazine’s Australian Top 50 IT operations.

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Sep 16
2008

Toward Q2: Queensland's 2020 Vision

Posted by peter.carr in SME, saas, rudd, R&D, queensland, internet, economy, carbon, bligh, australia
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2020 Visions are the politician’s strategic equivalent of what Green ICT marketing is for technology vendors at the moment. They are everywhere. The trouble for the intended audience is trying to find the differences between visions and hallucinations, or even policy and strategy. But who can blame the politicians? As a concept, “tomorrow” is a great theme to use when setting agendas. It is most often an exciting prospect. But as well as it being an exciting prospect it can also conjure frightening ghosts of Christmas future as Ebenezer Scrooge first discovered in 1843 when Dicken’s published A Christmas Carol.

So with the Queensland Premier unveiling her Toward Q2 vision for Queensland I first re-read the editorial I wrote back in April comparing Prime Minister Rudd’s 2020 Vision to the Malaysian Prime Minister’s 2020 Vision of 1991. A quick synopsis went something like “immediate unification of non-integrated and competing national strategies and bodies is required should the Rudd government have any hope of handing down a meaningful 2020 Strategic Framework by the end of 2008.”

Back then I found the “tomorrowness” of the Rudd plan wanting. And recalling Dicken's, I love the description of the ghost of Christmas Future on Wikipedia as an analogy for fluffy vision statements: “…it appeared to Scrooge as a figure entirely muffled in a black hooded robe, except for a single gaunt hand with which it pointed.” The future is that way!

Given the development approach of the Bligh strategy is similar in virtually every respect to Rudd’s strategic framework (i.e. publish key themes, then invite community consultation, then develop and enact policies at a later undisclosed date), I approached the 44 page document with trepidation.

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