It’s time for companies to update their knowledge and approach to business–what may have worked before is inadequate for the complexity all organizations face today. Our new series focuses on what companies need to embrace today to succeed and scale up. It is based on our new book ‘From Silos to Network: A New Kind of Science […]
Improving Flow Company Wide – A Systemic Approach Part 9
In the previous posts in this series on the Ten Steps of the Decalogue Method we looked at the way Statistical Process Control (SPC), a strategically chosen constraint and managing the constraint buffer provide us with the focus and the practical mechanism to run our organization. However, there is still a very crucial element that […]
How to Improve Company Culture and Performance with a Transformation Based on Competencies
In the previous article in this series, Dr. Domenico Lepore covered the key ingredients needed to gear up for complexity and speed. Here in Part 6 he introduces the idea of competencies as the engine for transformation. As declared in several publications over the years, our goal at IM is the transformation of the prevailing, silo-based, organizational design and […]
How to Scale a Business Sustainably
In the previous article in this series, our Founder Dr. Domenico Lepore, described the evolution of a systemic solution for managing organizations and avoiding silos. Here in Part Four, he answers the question “How do you put it into action?” In 1999, we still did not have a sufficiently generic and comprehensive answer to how […]
A Project-Based Organization to Radically Improve Performance
Competencies not power, common goal instead of function/silo results, these are the elements of an organization built on projects. We all know that what matters is the global (overall) bottom line of any organization. And yet, when we measure performance, we connect it with functional, i.e. silo results. How do we come out of this seemingly irreconcilable conflict? We […]
