R/ friends, Vision is pro-longed goal achievement plan & Mission is the action plan to achieve targets with the consideration of current scenario and vision of organisation
From India, Indore
1From India, Indore
Mission:- States the reason why your company exists. on the other hand Vision:- Is your strategy they way you want to achieve your goal.
From Afghanistan
From Afghanistan
I agree with you. so we can say vision is a long term goal of organisation and mission is to short term targets/achievement to achieve that vision. hope i am right. regards, Neesu
From India, New Delhi
From India, New Delhi
juz i will add a point to the others perspective on vision and mission, usually vision statementsa re short declaration of what an organisation wants to be in future, and mission statements are the purpose excistence of the organisation
Vision is where you or your company would be after certain period of time. And Mission is what will you or your company will do to approach your Vision.
From India, Navsari
From India, Navsari
If we cannot even get clarity and differentiate between Vision and Mission then we will find difficulty to engage people on the strategic direction of the business. In worse cases, I have seen many people/companies got the Vision and Mission all twisted in reverse.
A Mission tells the reason why the company/entity exist - purpose or reason for being.
A Vision explains what the organization wants to become in some future.
The best way to explain this is always to give examples. Lets' take dariyahussine example - Centers for Disease Control. I wholly agree with the Mission, but not with the Vision.
We acknowledge a vision as a long term goal, aspiration or destiny that we want to achieve in some future. But, how come we just treat it as some "infinite" wishful thought devoid of substance in driving towards it's achievement. The biggest flaw in vision statements is when you do not give it a timeframe - dateline!
Healthy people in a healthy world - sounds so superflous, impractical and overgeneralised. How would one reword/rephrase it to better reflect the future state it wants to see.
I would say, "to become the first disease control agency in the world to achieve 100% control of Malaria by 2015" (Let's assume, currently Malaria happens to be the biggest killer disease)
Now, tell me what goes in your mind, as an Employee!. We often forget to put our ideas and decisions through this test process. The Vision is for everyone to lock and allign their focus, commitment, tasks to that overaching "ultimate" goal written under Vision. This is what gives direction, meaning, motivation, morale and substance to the job, tasks, activities that people come to work for. The entire workforce can then be geared to rally behind this single big agenda, in a selfless state of engagement.
If we can't get the Vision "right", how can we expect our people to be on the same page in the execution phase. Year in and year out, we may seem to be making significant progress in accordance with our stated Mission, but how do you measure the "effectiveness" of your progress in that journey, if you have not set some check points.
A Vision is a goal - hence should follow the tenets of SMART principles and it must have a timeline. Once you have acheived it, then set another compelling Vision to stretch the capability and potential of people. Vision is all about people - giving people hope, direction and purpose to stay challenged. We should avoid making it a 'meaningless" statement to satisfy having something on the wall.
Now, how complicated can that be.
Hope the above helps.
Rgds
Yuva
From Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
A Mission tells the reason why the company/entity exist - purpose or reason for being.
A Vision explains what the organization wants to become in some future.
The best way to explain this is always to give examples. Lets' take dariyahussine example - Centers for Disease Control. I wholly agree with the Mission, but not with the Vision.
We acknowledge a vision as a long term goal, aspiration or destiny that we want to achieve in some future. But, how come we just treat it as some "infinite" wishful thought devoid of substance in driving towards it's achievement. The biggest flaw in vision statements is when you do not give it a timeframe - dateline!
Healthy people in a healthy world - sounds so superflous, impractical and overgeneralised. How would one reword/rephrase it to better reflect the future state it wants to see.
I would say, "to become the first disease control agency in the world to achieve 100% control of Malaria by 2015" (Let's assume, currently Malaria happens to be the biggest killer disease)
Now, tell me what goes in your mind, as an Employee!. We often forget to put our ideas and decisions through this test process. The Vision is for everyone to lock and allign their focus, commitment, tasks to that overaching "ultimate" goal written under Vision. This is what gives direction, meaning, motivation, morale and substance to the job, tasks, activities that people come to work for. The entire workforce can then be geared to rally behind this single big agenda, in a selfless state of engagement.
If we can't get the Vision "right", how can we expect our people to be on the same page in the execution phase. Year in and year out, we may seem to be making significant progress in accordance with our stated Mission, but how do you measure the "effectiveness" of your progress in that journey, if you have not set some check points.
A Vision is a goal - hence should follow the tenets of SMART principles and it must have a timeline. Once you have acheived it, then set another compelling Vision to stretch the capability and potential of people. Vision is all about people - giving people hope, direction and purpose to stay challenged. We should avoid making it a 'meaningless" statement to satisfy having something on the wall.
Now, how complicated can that be.
Hope the above helps.
Rgds
Yuva
From Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
There are two different statements regarding vision in the above word doc.
Point No. 4 says vision is a short term goal
point No. 11 written as vision = long term goal
according to me itis long term goal and mission is short term goal.
From India
Point No. 4 says vision is a short term goal
point No. 11 written as vision = long term goal
according to me itis long term goal and mission is short term goal.
From India
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