‘Who doesn’t want to have an annual plan o none A3 paper sheet?’ More focus, more commitment and less paperwork in the key of the A3 approach. The A3 approach enables managers to realize their plan more effective and with support of all people involved. The A3 approach helps managers to create a more result-focused an concrete annual plan. The EFQM Excellence Model guarantees attention to all enable and result areas of an organization. No unneeded paperwork, no complex formats, only a more professional and efficient monitoring of achieved results.

The A3 approach is based on three pillars:
-A3 annual plan: an annual plan on one A3 paper sheet.
-A3 management dialogue: a more systematic dialogue: a more systematic dialogue between managers from different management levels about actual developments, successes and points of worry. The A3 annual plan provides the agenda. Policy will be deployed to and connected with action.
-A3 digital: facilitates en provides in actual management information, synchronized with themes of the A3 annual plan.

This book presents a one paper strategy: the A3 approach. The A3 approach enables organizations to transform their mostly rigid and soulless management control systems to an inspiring, interactive and attractive way of planned change. Empowering people is the key of goal oriented and purposive change, using annual plants It’s just this, what mostly misses!

Henk Doeleman is managing director of TNO Management Consultants
Manon Dipenmaat is consultant at TNO Management Consultants.
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