The traditional top down company hierarchy has become a trap. It inevitably leads to silos, discontent and an overall suboptimization of all the resources in any company. That is a very heavy burden to carry. The traditional hierarchical/functional structure is one where the sum of individual efforts and departments is considered equal to the performance […]
Who Should Work from Home?
A recent article in a magazine for CEOs posed the question, who should work remotely? “As we slowly emerge from the pandemic and the resulting stay-at-home orders, organizational leaders need to make difficult decisions on who will—and won’t—be required to return to the office. With study after study showing that most employees are not interested […]
A Digital Tool for Human Interaction with a Common Goal: Ess3ntial
We’ve been getting ready to release something exciting and the time has now come. This week, our friend at NASA, David Meza, an early reader of Domenico Lepore’s book ‘Deming and Goldratt: The Decalogue’, and a brave advocate of systems thinking in a highly siloed organization, mentions in an article that he “wants to tackle questions […]
Managing Your Company as a Network
What if it were possible for leadership to have a complete overview and a way of managing their entire organization as one whole system through scheduling and synchronizing available competencies? This post by Dr. Giovanni Siepe is part of our run up to releasing something that changes the way companies can view and manage their […]
Future Proof Your Organization with a Systems Based Approach – 45 Easy Pieces
This week at Intelligent Management we are focusing on getting ready to launch something very special at the end of May. Over the last year, since the COVID epidemic began, we made an extra effort to publish material regularly to help people adopt a systems view as a way of moving beyond the crisis. Instead […]
Time for a Complete Rethink of the Role of Management
As we have declared in several publications over the years, our goal at Intelligent Management is the transformation of the prevailing, silo-based, organizational design and management style into one of whole system optimization. The month of May is an important one for all of us at Intelligent Management. It marks the 25th anniversary of the […]
What Is the Theory of Constraints REALLY About?
This week we had the pleasure of being invited to give an introductory seminar on the Theory of Constraints in Canada. As there can be many misunderstandings about what The Theory of Constraints really is, we thought it would be a good opportunity to share a brief overview in this post. The theory of Constraints […]
Physics and Management: What You Must Understand to Lead and Manage Today
Continuing on from our post last week that included a “Quantum perspective”, one of our two very own physicists, Dr. Giovanni Siepe, writes today about physics and management and what leaders and managers need to know. Physics has been considered for a long time a “reductionist discipline” dedicated to the understanding, description and interpretation of […]
Systems Thinking and Quantum Theory – Why We Need Them for Business
Readers of this blog will know that we promote a systemic understanding of companies and a systems science-based method for managing all aspects of an enterprise, from strategy through to day-to-day operations. We see organizations as entities that are not a collection of separate pieces but as highly interconnected networks of projects and there is an […]
How to Cope With Change: Understanding Cause and Effect
Dr. W. Edwards Deming used to say: “The only thing that does not require maintenance is obsolescence”. This is a fundamental truth: if we do not evolve, we regress. What makes everything more complicated is the pace at which we must evolve to survive. Nobody would recommend change for the sake of it. However, our […]
