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Need for “Think Tanks”
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Posted on May 31 2000
At Issue: The obvious irrelevance of the “mañana” planning method in fast shifting global conduct of business.
Our View: The NMI must seriously employ the services of Think Tanks to map-out our visions of the future.
As sophisticated the world’s second largest economy, the Government of Japan employed Think Tanks to refine major restructuring of economic and financial policies. It grants it the opportunity to secure a clearer view of how to deal with the old and new economy.
The old economy is the entrenched method in the conduct of business. The new pertains to the inevitable impact of the Information Technology.
The local House of Representatives seems the only proactive half of the second branch. It has pushed timely legislation through its chamber that now languishes in the intransigence of Senator Pedro P. Reyes’ committee. The executive branch once touted its 100-day plan that fizzled out into the nether world of oblivion.
Perhaps it is equally timely that the lower house reinforces the proposed emplacement of legal infrastructure to reboot the local economy by following up with legislation to earmark funds for Think Tanks. The NMI does not now have a socio-economic plan in place.
We need one that is sanctioned by the legislature to give the NMI better glimpses of what needs to be done in order to get our house in order.
Our penchant for “ad hoc” planning has done the NMI more harm than good. We don’t seem to know where we were, where we are today and where we’re headed. And this isn’t pure criticism as much as it is an observation to shake-off that wonderful sense of La Mañana that has basically left a huge ocean of
“Things We Failed To Do”.
Indeed, the task is a daunting one which is more the reason to earmark funds to let the real experts (without political affiliations) draw a map on how to deal with the new economy. Unless we’re willing to bite the bullet of real planning, the chance for the NMI to be playing Catch-Up could be an exercise in perpetuity. We owe to ourselves and the generations of young people who look toward leadership for brighter tomorrows. Si Yuus Maase`!
