Over the last 25 years, Intelligent Management has invested much of its time investigating how to go beyond the traditional hierarchical organizational structure. Transitioning from a traditional hierarchical structure to a System is neither immediate nor linear. One of the most important ways to facilitate this transition is leveraging available competencies within the organization instead […]
What is Variation and Why Do We Care?
We continue our series focusing on what companies need to embrace today to succeed and scale up because what may have worked before is inadequate for the complexity all organizations face today. The series is based on our new book From Silos to Network: A New Kind of Science for Management’ to be published by Springer this September!’ […]
What Does Every Organization Do? Processes and Projects
It’s time for companies to update their knowledge and approach to business–what may have worked before is inadequate for the complexity all organizations face today. Our new series focuses on what companies need to embrace today to succeed and scale up. It is based on our new book ‘From Silos to Network: A New Kind of Science […]
Why Mapping Your Organization as a System Makes Sense – Introducing Flowcharts
How do we know what we are doing? As Dr. Deming used to say, “if you cannot describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you are doing”. Each and every part of an organization, be it a person, a machine or even a project or process, has a role in […]
What’s Wrong with Silos in Your Organization?
It’s time for companies to update their knowledge and approach to business–what may have worked before is inadequate for the complexity all organizations face today. Our new series focuses on what companies need to embrace today to succeed and scale up. It is based on our new book in the works ‘From Silos to Network: […]
How to Manage your Organization as a Complex System
The Intelligent Management team is coming out with a new book to be published by Springer! It’s called ‘From Silos to Network: A New Kind of Science for Management’. We’ll be highlighting some of the content in the coming months. Today’s post is by Dr. Giovanni Siepe. Over the last 25 years there has been […]
Our Reality is Systemic – Time for Decision Makers to Understand the Implications
Today’s post ‘Our Reality is Systemic’ is by Dr. Domenico Lepore. It is an excerpt adapted from ‘Sechel: Logic, Language and Tools to Manage Any Organization as a Network‘ that is even more relevant today than when it was written during the global financial crisis. Our reality is systemic. As communication becomes more instantaneous, we are […]
Connect and Orient Your Entire Company Towards the Goal
Everything has changed. Things that were unthinkable not so long ago are coming to pass. And change is accelerating. If that’s the case, how can it make sense to keep on running and shaping organizations the way we did twenty years ago? This is an ostrich solution – putting our heads in the sand, doing […]
Beyond Continuous Improvement: Deming and Goldratt together
Why are so many companies being managed the same way as ten years ago, and with the same kind of organizational structure? It’s hardly surprising that there are a myriad of challenges when it’s clear to everyone that our reality has moved on, even if we haven’t. Trying to succeed with the same old recipes for […]
Confused about the Theory of Constraints? Don’t be!
A lot of confusion has arisen about the Theory of Constraints (TOC) and people publish the strangest things about it. Just this week, an entrepreneur in the USA is quoted as saying that his company “applies the theory of constraints to help identify the most pressing factors that stand in the way of achieving a […]
