Beyond teams, beyond cross-functional, today’s challenges require nothing less than a Systemic Organization. A Systemic Organization is inherently free of silos. It is built to scale up and handle complexity. But how can you do it, practically?Since 1996, the Ten Steps of the Decalogue method for systemic management have enabled companies to organize and build […]
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A New Generation of Entrepreneurs and Leaders Facing Unprecedented Challenges
“If your ambition is to maximise short-term gain without regard to the long-term cost, you are better off not knowing the cost. If you want to preserve your personal immunity to the hard problem, it’s better never to really understand those problems. There is an upside to ignorance, and a downside to knowledge. Knowledge makes […]
Letter to a CIO– Understanding Your Dilemma and How to Move Forward
From Dr. Domenico Lepore Dear Bob, You have asked me to guide you now that you have become the leader of your IT organization. You deserve this position, but the challenges are great. This is not because you are any less qualified than the best of your peers. It’s because the complexity that governs our […]
Understanding The Theory of Constraints from Books
Thousands of views on LinkedIn On 31st March this year, as it was the birthday of Dr. Goldratt who developed the Theory of Constraints, we posted a photo of him and a short message: Today is Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt’s birthday. We spent the morning surfacing assumptions that we can challenge in order to create a […]
The Prerequisite for Project Success: Critical Chain
Today’s post is by Dr. Giovanni Siepe. Every ground breaking solution that is part of the Theory of Constraints springs from challenging limiting assumptions of the situation at hand. It is exactly the same for the Critical Chain algorithm for project management. In the late 1990s, Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt brilliantly tackled a foundational limiting belief […]
The Critical Chain Method for Project Management: The Best Kept Secret
In his 1997 novel called ‘Critical Chain’, Dr. Goldratt tackled head on the thorny and complex issue of project management. It was soon adopted by organizations including Procter & Gamble, NASA, and Texas Instruments.
Navigating Our Beliefs to Make Good Decisions
Today’s blog post is by Dr. Giovanni Siepe Galileo’s Legacy: Modern Science “I believe in Humanity, which means to say I believe in human reason.” This powerful quote from Berthold Brecht’s play ‘Life of Galileo’ deserves some consideration. I agree with Galileo, of course, in his determination to believe in reason and his unshakable faith […]
Business, Emotion and the Human Constraint
It’s been a while since our last post. We’ve been concentrating our writing efforts elsewhere and we are very happy to announce that ‘The Human Constraint’ that started out as an online project, downloaded in 43 countries around the world, will be published this year by a major publishing house, Taylor & Francis (Routledge). Here, […]
Every End is a Beginning
As we come closer to the end of 2023, some may be tempted to think we are coming to the end of much more than a calendar year. The “unthinkable” in many areas of our lives, social, political and economic, has become increasingly our reality. Never as much as today has it become urgent to […]
A New Book From Us – Who Needs It?
Our new book is finally available See: ‘From Silos to Network: A New Kind of Science for Management’ published by Springer This post was written by the Founder of Intelligent Management, Dr. Domenico Lepore Was this book really needed? Let me tell you: writing a book is complicated. It is emotionally burdensome, extremely time consuming and […]
