The Intelligent Management team is currently in northern Italy where the Coronavirus has created unprecedented levels of disruption to daily life and to businesses and the economy at large. The extraordinary circumstances, however, have also highlighted the unique advantages of a solution developed by one of our oldest clients and dear friends at Hyphen-Italia, a […]
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Ten Steps To Transform Your Enterprise from Fragmented into a Whole System
In our last post we made a bold statement: Many companies could probably achieve ten times what they are achieving with the competencies and resources they currently have available. So why don’t they? It’s all connected with the way we think about what a company is and how it should be designed and operated to be most […]
Educating Executives for Systems Leadership in the Digital Age
The Managing Director of the World Economic Forum recently published an article called ‘Why the World Needs Systems Leadership, Not Selfish Leadership’ The article concludes: The self-important don’t always win. Selfless leadership can create systemic change that spreads happiness – instead of hoarding it. At Intelligent Management we have been educating executives to be Systems […]
Intelligent Management Success Stories
Learning is not compulsory, neither is survival. Dr. W. Edwards Deming Gearing up to compete in an increasingly digitized market In today’s interconnected and increasingly digitized world, companies face an ever-present challenge: how to gear up to compete and be effective. A major obstacle is that many companies think and organize their work in silos. […]
The Limiting Beliefs Holding Your Business Back – and What to Do About It
If a business is not growing, it’s shrinking. It’s a hard truth to accept. There is no such thing as standing still because plenty of other businesses are moving forward. Even if your market share increases, how much is it increasing in proportion with the growth of the market? So what is it that holds businesses […]
WHOLE SYSTEM BENEFITS
Artificial barriers block the flow of productivity, processes, communication, people’s engagement, and innovative thinking. We help leaders overcome silos and unlock the potential of the people and resources you already have available by designing effective processes, creating correct interdependencies for positive collaboration and scheduling competencies to create reliable, synchronized projects to deliver the goal of the […]
NEW FRONT PAGE WHOLE SYSTEM
Our reality has changed irrevocably. Leaders need to rapidly change the way they understand and manage companies to keep up. This is where science provides practical and valid solutions. Companies are systems and networks of processes and projects that have a common goal and finite (available) resources. A company can maximize and accelerate its results […]
The Age of Incompetence? How to Put Competence First
It’s a question that must be on so many people’s minds today. All around us, from the people who “deliver” our day-to-day services to the people who lead countries, let alone smaller areas of responsibility, some days we seem to be drowning in incompetence. How is it possible that so much incompetence abounds and why […]
Conversations for Action for Global Competitiveness
We’re honoured to be invited to speak at the Horasis Global Forum this week, held in Cascais near Lisbon, Portugal. Our specific contribution will be a systemic perspective on what can support competitiveness at a national level. Horasis brings together heads of state, global leaders in the commercial and public sectors and innovators. We are proud […]
Executive Education: Updating for the Age of Complexity
Executives today must be able to understand how things interdepend and evolve in order to navigate complexity. Current Executive Education provided by the business degrees and MBAs on offer are not providing adequate knowledge, methods and tools. We already propose a full operational solution for organizational design for complexity (see ‘The Organization as a […]
