Dr. Domenico Lepore, an international expert on systems thinking for management and Founder of Intelligent Management Inc. completes this mini-series on innovation. Focus and continuous innovation An organization requires great focus in order to keep up with the continuous innovation process. The focus needed can only be developed as a result of an improved “collective […]
Innovation, Leadership and Quality: How They Interconnect
Dr. Domenico Lepore, Founder of Intelligent Management Inc. and international expert in Quality and Systems Thinking for organizations, continues his series on Innovation. Leadership: definition and role Earlier in this series we suggested the first 2 steps towards prosperous innovation: 1) creating an operational definition (see Prosperous Innovation) 2) challenging the assumption that imagination is […]
Be Kind Like a Girl
Around the world on 8th March women are being celebrated during International Women’s Day. We celebrate Women’s Day because, in spite of considerable progress, women have still not achieved equality in the workplace, in the Boardroom or in our governments. Intelligent Management spends a chunk of its time in Italy for projects where this post […]
Imagination and Innovation
Continuing from our post yesterday, Prosperous Innovation. Imagination and Innovation – are they the same? In our previous post, we suggested there are several steps towards prosperous innovation, the first of which is to create an operational definition for innovation. The second step is to invalidate the flawed assumption that equates “imagination” with “Innovation”. Imagination […]
Prosperous Innovation
What better subject matter for our new blog layout than innovation? This post is by Dr. Domenico Lepore, an international expert on systems thinking for management. Together with Oded Cohen he developed the Decalogue Management Methodology, combining the management philosophy of the founding father of Quality, W. Edwards Deming, with the Theory of Constraints. Innovation […]
How Can Organizations Adapt for Unprecedented Speed?
The challenges facing organizations today are rapid, complex and unknown. They struggle to read the stimuli, absorb them and react within a timeframe that is now necessary. That is because their design and leadership model is still rooted in an outdated, mechanical understanding of reality. How can organizations adapt? The hierarchical functional model is failing […]
Can Doing Good Be Good for Business?
A lot of language connected with business has to do with aggression. Not only that, a lot of behavior in business can be aggressively competitive. Phrases like ‘eat what you kill’ illustrate the point. So do businesses have to be ruthlessly self-interested and aggressive to be successful? Is a zero-sum mentality the only way? The […]
Everyone Can Win: Why We Need A New Economics
In his monumental work ‘The New Economics’, W. Edwards Deming states: ‘It would be better if everyone would work together as a system, with the aim for everybody to win. What we need is cooperation and transformation to a new style of management.’ Instead, many people perceive that corporations place profit over people, self-interest over justice, and […]
Words and Variation: Eliminate Misunderstanding
We all use words all the time. The problem is, the same word can have a variety of meanings for different people. If we want work to go smoothly it’s important to make sure that people can understand each other. People who learn English in the UK and America all learn ‘English’ but there are […]
Design Your Processes, Design Your Reality
A recent afternoon was spent looking at the meticulous flowcharts of processes drawn up by an innovative software company for a client. It was something the client had never done for themselves. They were astonished when they saw the result. What did they reveal? Many people, especially in more traditional sectors, are accustomed to just […]
