Differentiating Mission and Vision

In this episode, Ricardo explains the difference between the mission and the vision of an organization or a project.

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Hello, everyone. Welcome to the five minutes, a BM podcast today. I like to record a very quick Podcast. I was reading a book about effective change manager, so which to talk about change management, and they have a very interesting part of the book where to talk about Vision and Mission, and there is a lot of misunderstanding on what is Mission

Speaker 1 (26s): Then. So a lot of people think that mission and vision are the same. Sometimes they switch both. And

Speaker 0 (32s): So I decided just to read and comment with you, what day

Speaker 1 (36s): Propose as Vision and

Speaker 0 (39s): The Mission. So let's start with Mission. How do they define Mission mission is the fundamental principles of an idea

Speaker 1 (47s): Organisation or an enterprise,

Speaker 0 (50s): Just so Mission is why you as an organization exist.so. Do you exist to fulfill what need, why do you exist today? But what is the vision? The vision is the outline of what organization wants to be in the future. The Mission is what you do now, the reason for you to exist. But the vision is how do you want to be in 2025, in 2030, whatever.

And if you go to a project, it's exactly the same. What is the vision?

Speaker 1 (1m 30s): One of a project or a transformation

Speaker 0 (1m 33s): Project is how do you see the future when your project is over? And this could be part of your pros, a chart or your business case. So how, for example, let's do make one quick exercise. So your vision, my vision is that by the end of the project, all of our customers will be ABL in an autonomous way, in an independent way, access all their information about their relationship with our organization.

They're our bills and the things that were pay for them or whatever. So this is the Vision you have, then your project is to implement a customer service software. So this, the vision is for me, like, and don't like to say Splitly like that, but it's like imagine a blueprint. Okay. But imagine a consolidated blueprint. If you can close your eyes, open your eyes into data, project is over, or what do you expect to see there?

And the mission, the mission is why you organization exist. So the organization now exists to fulfill what kind of need. So it's very, very interesting. And it's so interesting. If you go to Wikipedia, I did some quick research. You can see this there, and I think it's

Speaker 1 (3m 0s): Very relevant to share this with you so we can try to frame a little bit more the concept. Of course we are talking.

Speaker 0 (3m 7s): What about, about names and about,

Speaker 1 (3m 11s): But I think that Kip in this,

Speaker 0 (3m 13s): In my mind, this two dimensions on why you should exist and what is this

Speaker 1 (3m 19s): Vision future? How do you see

Speaker 0 (3m 21s): In the future when your project is over, are two very complimentary concepts that will help you to understand and give the first steps towards the success of your project. I hope you enjoyed this podcast and see you next week with another five minutes BM Podcast.

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