[vacets-gen] RE: VACETS or NO VACETS

[Tho Vu]

Dear Anh Tri': 
 
A way to handle this is to go through a strategic planning process. It's
similar to the one that we did for VACETS about 5 years ago. This plan
should be revised regularly at least once a year. It's a number job of any
president/leader of any organization or country. 
 
Please take a look at a table of Strategies for Organization or Strategic
Planning. It has areas like: external and internal assessment; and strategy
development, alignment and execution. In each area such as external
assessment, it has components such as S curve, external scanning, market
research and market opportunities. I don't have this table handy, but you
should be able to find it in your library, etc. 
 
If you need further assistance, please give me a ring at 651-633-5925. 
 
Good luck with this process. 
 
Tho. 
 
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From: Tri Tran [mailto:tran4 at llnl.gov] 
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 5:48 PM
To: vacets-local-dc at vacets.org; vacets-gen at vacets.org; vacets at vacets.org;
vtic05-core at external.cisco.com
Subject: VACETS or NO VACETS


Dear all


I am still struggled with VACETS vision and future activities and find it
harder and harder to answer to myself and a handful of dedicated (non-VACETS
member) individuals who want to help rebuild VACETS. During this important
Board election process, the dead silence response from VACETS general
population and unenthused reaction from VACETS veterans do not help. The
hard work ahead is equivalent to starting VACETS anew and am not ready to
dive into that and invest mine and asking the time of several others without
having a vision and a belief in its future survival.

Rather than ducking the inevitable and nurturing false hope, let me ask THE
HARD QUESTION:

WHAT IS VACETS? IS THIS TIME TO SHUT IT DOWN AND MOVE ON?

ACTION ITEM:


I am meeting with a number of friends and I am inviting all, especially
VACETS supporters in the Bay Area to a meeting to talk about this.

Time: 6-8 pm Wednesday 8/10
Place: Cisco Systems Inc., Building 23
           560 McCarthy Blvd., Milpitas, CA 95035

There will be a conference call option set up for you to call in between 6
and 7 pm for those die-hard VACETS members to call in to say a few words.

My recommendation is to ask ourselves as to how much we truly can help and
be realistic. Many motivated and resourceful VACETS leaders with strong
support team have come and go!. It is very hard to galvanize a busy and
ambitious technical communities!


Sincerely,


Tri 
 
 
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