At Intelligent Management, we guide organizations to understand operationally that they are a network of projects with one shared goal and not a collection of disconnected pieces. True to our role as organizational scientists, we help decision makers rethink how they design, manage, measure and develop their organizational system. HOW WE DO IT: Consultancy Through Education […]
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When 1 + 1 Doesn’t Equal 2: Understanding How Combined Efforts Affect Overall Performance
What happens when more than one person or more than one entity work together in the same direction? Is the result just the simple sum of their efforts? What happens when more than one person or more than one entity work together in the same direction? Is the result just the simple sum of their […]
Why Management Decisions Must Consider Variation
What is the guiding rule that should inspire any managerial decision? The job of Management is to work on the system and create a predictable environment; as Dr. Deming reminds us “the job of managers is to reduce variation”. Management and predictability A company is a complex system ruled by non-linear interactions that make it difficult […]
Variation and Processes
Everything we do in an organization can be considered as a process, and, whether we realize it or not, every process is affected by variation. We need to understand and manage this phenomenon of variation if we want to achieve the best results. Let’s look at the process of sales In our last post […]
Managing Variation: Why Entropy Matters
No management effort can ignore the existence of entropy and variation. What do we need to do about them? What is variation? It is beyond the scope of any blog to teach the fundamentals of Statistical Process Control; Don Wheeler and other experts have already done that majestically. The goal here is to examine […]
Why a Software Can Never Manage a Company
A client embarking on a pattern of transformation through systemic management recently asked ‘How soon will I be able to use the software to manage the company?’ It’s tempting to think that by buying and ‘installing’ the right software, a company can magically acquire a whole new way of operating that will lead to more […]
Transforming Industry with a Systemic Approach – Dr. Domenico Lepore
Dr. Domenico Lepore From exile to freedom: splitting the Red Sea Stupidity, as Dr. Deming has reminded us, is a choice. We are not talking about a low IQ but the refusal to use the mental capacity we have. We do not lack the knowledge needed to build and operate a truly systemic company guided […]
Building A Systemic Enterprise: The Learning Center
How do we practically go about the “reinvention” of work and workers foreshadowed by a new, systemic covenant with labour? The answer is a Centre where everyone in the company can learn how to be and act in this new organization. A Centre for Learning is not a training centre, it is not a management school, […]
The Crucial Role of Synchronization in a Systems-based Approach to Management
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 […]
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 […]
