When it comes to managing projects, many people imagine things that are simply not true. For example, it is quite common to think that multitasking is more productive than working sequentially. The assumption behind this statement is that by carrying out more than one task at the same time, we can complete the project […]
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A Buffer to Protect Your Organization and Your Projects
When managing an organization as a system, there are only a few factors that are important. One of these factors is the effective synchronization of the various activities in the organization. This is valid whether we are talking about production, projects, or any other process. In TOC (Theory of Constraints), successful synchronization happens when we […]
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 […]
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 […]
How Network Science Can Enable a New Economics of Sustainable Prosperity
In our previous post, we suggested three steps towards a new economics for sustainable prosperity. In this post we look at two more fundamental steps in a shift towards a new economics and how network theory and science can assist us in finding new ways to operate practically as organizations within a new mindset for […]
If Top Sectors Apply Critical Chain Method to Accelerate Projects, Why Does PMI Keep it Secret?
Every company has to coordinate and synchronize internal and external actions to get results. That’s the way every industry works and success depends on it. We can call it Project Management. There are thousands, if not millions, of well-meaning Project Managers around the world whose job is to help projects work. People spend millions of […]
Why Projects Complete “Sooner or Later”…
What is a project? It’s a word that everyone is familiar with but it can mean very different things to different people. This can lead not just to misunderstandings but to intrinsic unreliability in delivery. In other words, far too many projects in the world get delivered “sooner or later” with all the knock-on negative […]
Buffer Money -Radically Protecting Projects
Today’s post is by our Founder, Dr. Domenico Lepore. We have been writing extensively about the benefits of a design that mirrors the inherent project nature of the work of any organization. We call it the ‘Network of Projects’ organization design. The steps to build a Network of Projects organization are: 1) Recognizing that organizations are Systems, Networks of […]
Network Thinking: Changing How We see the World
Adopting a network perspective changes how we see the world and our place in it. In this post we look at how that applies to organizations and their design. Revolutions in thought have been part of our human development, from Copernicus’ unveiling how the sun does not revolve around the earth to Darwin’s theory of evolution, […]
Network of Teams – A Cognitive Ordeal?
Last month we published ‘Team of Teams – a Systems View‘ that garnered quite a bit of attention. The subject of teams is a hot one. Articles on the matter abound, like this one from Deloitte, ‘ Organizational Design – The Rise of Teams’ According to Deloitte, “Businesses are reinventing themselves to operate as networks of […]
