| Article ID: | iaor1994420 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 21 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 401 |
| End Page Number: | 410 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 1993 |
| Journal: | OMEGA |
| Authors: | Ackoff R.L. |
| Keywords: | organization |
Corporate visions are frequently illusions or delusions. To be effective, a vision should consist of an operationally meaningful description of the organization its stakeholders would have if they could have any organization they wanted-without constraints. It should be a consensus formulation in which all the stakeholders or their representatives have had a hand. Such a description is an