📅 2025-10-20 — Session: Strategic Planning and Technical Reflection for 2023

🕒 12:45–15:30
🏷️ Labels: Strategic Planning, Technical Reflection, Project Management, Automation, 2023 Review
📂 Project: Business

Session Goal:

The primary goal of this session was to conduct strategic planning for various project clusters and reflect on the technical evolution and achievements throughout 2023.

Key Activities:

  • Strategic Weekly Planning: Developed a structured approach to managing multiple project systems, detailing objectives, deliverables, and scheduling for key areas including poverty measurement, elections data management, financial infrastructure, and digital agency work.
  • Session Digest Expectations: Outlined the purpose and format for session digests, offering options for chronological analysis, thematic synthesis, or a hybrid approach.
  • Technical Consolidation and Evolution Overviews: Reflected on the technical developments from January to December 2023, covering areas such as data infrastructure, automation, machine learning, geospatial analysis, and institutional AI.
  • Operational Frameworks: Developed operational models for accounting focus blocks, integration sprints, and document processing workflows.

Achievements:

  • Established a comprehensive strategic plan for project clusters.
  • Documented technical progress and transitions over each month of 2023, highlighting key developments and shifts in focus.
  • Created detailed operational models and workflows for accounting and automation tasks.

Pending Tasks:

  • Further refine the strategic plans with specific metrics for success and monitoring criteria.
  • Continue development and optimization of automation workflows, particularly in document management and financial processing systems.