Change is happening fast and everywhere. The familiar is shifting from a physical, tangible world to a reality that is online and digital. Even some of our oldest, even ancient industries like printing and clothes manufacturing are becoming increasingly digitalized. What do these changes mean for the business world and where are they taking us? […]
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Making Your Intentions Work in An Organization
We are becoming increasingly aware of the need for collaboration and cooperation. This is not yet the mainstream for management and organizations, but the more complexity becomes the backdrop and context of what we do and experience, the more we need to find up-to-date ways to exist within that complexity. Is it just about being […]
Strategy Failure: Why We Need A Whole New World
In a recent article about strategy and execution, Roger Martin writes in the Harvard Business Review: “To fix our problem with strategy failure, we need to stop thinking in terms of the brain-to-body metaphor. Instead, we should conceive of the corporation as a white-water river in which choices cascade from the top to the bottom.” […]
Thinking of Your Organization as a Whole Will Improve Performance
When things get complicated in organizations, we can be tempted to “break them up” to try and simplify. Divide and conquer. That just makes matters worse. Why? Because organizations are in fact whole systems. Everything inside is interconnected and interdependent, so when we try and manage them any differently we inevitably underperform. By not seeing […]
11. The Woes of Winter
“Creating the playbook will be Alonso’s first major task, after the training period. He’ll be mapping out all the process flows of the entire organization, so we can build the quality system. It’s a daunting task, but Alonso is the man for the job.”! ghostwriting In this chapter, Sam tells May that she will hear […]
8. An Invisible Web
Our Methodology
How the Decalogue works The DecalogueTM is an methodology that provides organizations with conceptually powerful guidelines to manage any organization systemically. It combines the teachings of Dr. Deming (TPK) and Dr. Goldratt (TOC) into a new whole, allowing organizations to be managed as networks of projects. The Decalogue was developed in the mid ’90s by Domenico […]
New Product Development & Innovation
How the Decalogue Works
How the Decalogue Works The DecalogueTM is an methodology that provides organizations with conceptually powerful guidelines to manage any organization systemically. It combines the teachings of Dr. Deming (TPK) and Dr. Goldratt (TOC) into a new whole, allowing organizations to be managed as networks of projects. The Decalogue was developed in the mid ’90s by Domenico […]
Looking at Systemic Solutions for Education and Innovation
Standardized vs flexible In our previous post, we looked at our take on the Core Conflict affecting innovation in education today related to standardized knowledge and testing vs. flexibility and personalization. In this post, we take a closer look at what some systemic solutions can be to emerge form that conflict. Using the systems thinking […]
