Projects, or any initiative we embark on, can easily get out of hand. They are subject to the chaos that can arise when human interactions are not governed by precise guidelines. Entropy exists and it affects behaviours as well everything else. When we use the Transition Tree Tool to break projects down into actions we […]
The Words We Use Can Change Our Reality – Shifting to a Systems View
This morning I spoke to a highly accomplished, bi-lingual woman who works in software. We agreed that the words we use when we work can have an enormous impact. For example, in her environment, the word “project” has acquired a stigma because of the pain associated with it so now she talks about “initiatives”. This […]
The Human Constraint – Going Beyond What We Think Is Possible
Our lives today are filled with unprecedented levels of rapid change and complexity. Unintended consequences can quickly emerge from inadequate leadership thinking, so we must urgently learn to think not just in a “joined-up” way but in a systemic way. This means developing the skills to: understand and analyze our current reality, as individuals and organizations; […]
Building Company Culture with Process flow
Building a company culture based on the principles of Quality, Involvement and Flow is not just about nice words. Together, these principles form the basis of a highly operational way to create an organization that satisfies the customer and the people working within it. It’s been our privilege over the years to help many companies work […]
Scheduling a Project – The Most Critical Activity For Every Business
Building an organization as a whole system all starts with scheduling, as pointed out by Dr. Domenico Lepore in Part 7 of this series. Here in Part 8 he introduces the all important subject of scheduling. The process of scheduling As we stated in Part 2 of this series, you cannot have the same person work […]
Transforming to an End-to-End Operating Model with a Whole System Technology
As Dr. Goldratt has pointed out, a technology is only of use when it removes a limitation. Here in Part 7 of this series, Dr. Domenico Lepore introduces the journey that led to a new technology for transformation. Our Journey: Ess3ntial My partners and I were not born digital; let’s say we all have vivid […]
How to Improve Company Culture and Performance with a Transformation Based on Competencies
In the previous article in this series, Dr. Domenico Lepore covered the key ingredients needed to gear up for complexity and speed. Here in Part 6 he introduces the idea of competencies as the engine for transformation. As declared in several publications over the years, our goal at IM is the transformation of the prevailing, silo-based, organizational design and […]
The Key Ingredients of an Organization re-design for Complexity and Speed
In the previous article in this series, our Founder Dr. Domenico Lepore, covered how to scale a business sustainably. Here in Part 5 he looks at the fundamental ingredients for an organizational re-design appropriate for the 21st century challenges of complexity. Since the industrial revolution, the idea of control has been connected to a Newtonian, mechanistic worldview: to […]
How to Scale a Business Sustainably
In the previous article in this series, our Founder Dr. Domenico Lepore, described the evolution of a systemic solution for managing organizations and avoiding silos. Here in Part Four, he answers the question “How do you put it into action?” In 1999, we still did not have a sufficiently generic and comprehensive answer to how […]
Solving the Core Problem that Prevents Companies from Achieving Sustainable Growth
The only way to solve systemic problems is through systemic thinking. This is what allows us to step back and ask the fundamental questions so we can develop valid solutions. In Part 3 of this this new series, our Founder, Dr. Domenico Lepore, continues from Part 1 and Part 2 with the questions that allows us to find […]
