A leader is somebody who has a theory; somebody who “owns” a body of knowledge that backs his claims that they can accomplish a transformation within their span of control. That transformation must be one of system optimization as a prerequisite for innovation; one in which competition is replaced by cooperation, where performances are managed using appropriate statistical thinking and not assessed deterministically, […]
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Rethink and Reorganize: A Reliable Process to Rise Above Your Competitors
We live with such uncertainty today that only one thing is sure: change and adaptation are inevitable and what brought success to businesses in the past may no longer be valid. Trying constantly to “keep up” is exhausting. There is a much better alternative that is, instead, invigorating. Rather than keep up, businesses can step […]
How to Accelerate a Reliable Supply Chain the Systems Science Way
No matter what a company does, it is inevitably part of a supply chain. It receives inputs and has to transform these inputs into something to pass on to a customer reliably. It’s an ongoing process, and like every process it can be improved. Today change is happening fast, threatening the survival of companies that can’t keep up. […]
The Throughput Revolution that Beats Cutting Costs
Today’s post is by Dr. Giovanni Siepe. The Theory of Constraints is a management methodology developed by the physicist Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt in the late 1970s. There is little doubt about how radically effective TOC is and that remarkable results have been achieved with it in all kinds of sectors, from healthcare to steel foundries […]
What Kind of Company Hierarchy Works for the Digital Age?
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 […]
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 […]
