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 […]
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Managing a Systemic Organization: The Information System
It is astonishing how software becomes more and more an artificial constraint to the development of organizations. The unsuitability of the majority of software to add any meaningful value to the work of organizations is easily explained by looking at the way companies are structured. Quality is a mindset In our last post we looked […]
Operating a Systemic Organization: The Playbook
How do we reinforce operationally Quality and Synchronization within our system? In other words, how do we operate a systemic organization? Who does what, when, where, how and why? There are 4 vital components, and the first one is the Playbook. Resource optimization and synchronization What do we mean by Quality? Quality means understanding that […]
Flawed Models – Why We Need a New Economics
What is is wrong with mainstream economic and financial models today? Continuing the series on a New Economics. Mainstream economic and financial models, the ones that currently rule the markets and determine value, have shifted their focus over the years from what is best for the society they should try to model to what is […]
What Do We Mean By A New Economics?
Best efforts and hard work, not guided by new knowledge, they only dig deeper the pit we are in. The aim of this book is to provide new knowledge. Deming, The New Economics. Economics as a ‘political science’ A new knowledge was created by W. Edwards Deming for creating systems-based organizations. That knowledge calls […]
New Economics Leadership: Quality, Involvement, Flow
What if being a leader has nothing to do with creating followers? Dr. Domenico Lepore, Founder of Intelligent Management, writes about Leadership. Leadership and selflessness A leader must provide their people with a vision of life and this vision must be permeated with the idea of justice; a leader with their words and actions must […]
New Leadership, New Economics
In his seminal book The New Economics, W. Edwards Deming said that the job of a leader is to accomplish transformation of his organization. What does that mean in terms of leadership? Dr. Domenico Lepore, Founder of Intelligent Management, writes about Leadership. What is Transformation? The views, experience, analysis and practice expressed in this blog […]
Educating, Training and Nurturing Systemic Managers (Drive Out Fear)
We have looked in our previous posts at the shape and nature of an organization where we can drive out fear. But how do we prepare people to work within an organization that is different from a traditional hierarchy? What are the skills they need practically, intellectually and emotionally? One thing is for sure: it […]
Learning, Joy, and the Interconnected Future
Continuing our series on the network of projects, this post is by Dr. Domenico Lepore, founder of Intelligent Management Inc.Over the last 20 years he has developed and applied the Decalogue Management methodology in a wide range of organizations in Europe and the USA. The Decalogue is a powerful systemic synergy of W. Edwards Deming’s […]
Can We Do Away With Hierarchy?
We look at hierarchy and how to change it as we continue our series on creating the no-fear environment for the 21st century organization for post-digital workers and managers in response to our invitation from ‘No Fear’ author Pekka Viljakainen. In order to create an organization that combines the two most fundamental elements of […]