New technological platforms are emerging almost daily to allow people to come together and collaborate. This should be good news because every human activity aimed at producing a result requires collaboration. Even more good news is that this is very healthy in evolutionary terms: collaboration is more effective than competition. The very success of our species […]
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Science against Silos – Why Organizations Need to Be Systems
The world of management is changing fast, and yet we still live in an environment where the prevailing organizational design is “functional/hierarchical” and organizations are thought of as a collection of silos. At the same time, we know that we are experiencing increasing levels of complexity. Why is it so hard to manage these increased […]
The PMO and the Brilliant Future of Project Managers
This post is by Dr. Domenico Lepore, Founder of Intelligent Management. A few days ago I had the opportunity to present the ideas that we at Intelligent Management promote on both sides of the “pond” to an extremely qualified and attentive audience: The Northern Italian Chapter of the PMI Institute. The venue, a very well-known […]
Digital and Decentralized or How to Embrace Complexity
THE FOLLOWING IS THE ABSTRACT FROM A FORTHCOMING PUBLICATION Our world is increasingly digital and decentralized. We must therefore urgently rethink, structurally and operationally, how organizations are designed so they can adapt and compete in the digital age. This starts by understanding the problems raised by complexity. Complexity, i.e a reality that is highly interconnected […]
Beyond the Comfort Zone for Organizations
The problem with comfort zones is that we stick with them even when they are no longer fit for purpose. We prefer to squeeze ourselves into an awkward space as long as it’s familiar, rather than expanding into the unknown. Comfort zones prevent us from doing anything that goes beyond what we already know. In […]
A New Organizational Model for the Digital Age
As we’re enjoying a visit here in Victoria, BC from Goldratt’s original publisher, Larry Gadd who published our foundational work, ‘Deming and Goldratt: The Decalogue’ – the first book to be published by North River Press on the Theory of Constraints that was not by Goldratt himself – it’s a good occasion to look again […]
The Traditional Hierarchy Organization Doesn’t Work Anymore
Why are people still stuck in adopting a traditional hierarchy and functional organization structure when there are clearly so many drawbacks? When organizations are created and organized in a matrix of vertical hierarchy and functions, an inevitable consequence is the existence of a series of “walls” or divisions that inhibit the resources involved in producing an optimal […]
State of the Art Project Management with Critical Chain
Too many projects all over the world fail to deliver, coming in late and over budget. We all pay the price for this. The reason is because much of Project Management is flawed in its thinking and execution. It doesn’t have to be this way. In his 1997 business novel called ‘Critical Chain’, Dr. Eliyahu […]
Synchronization and Optimization: A Systems-based Approach
The systemic approach to the economics and management of resources focuses on what can be achieved by combining the resources at hand. This is difficult because we are accustomed to thinking of resources as “belonging” to something, i.e. a function. In this paradigm, resources are allocated to achieve local, functional optima to the detriment of […]
Reorganizing for the Digital Age
The nature of work is changing and it’s happening fast. So fast, in fact that companies are struggling to keep up with the changes. Reorganizing for the Digital Age is a challenge that all companies will have to face. Only 11 percent of global companies report they are prepared to build “the organization of the […]
