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 […]
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 […]
State of the Art Project Management with Critical Chain
Too many projects all over the world fail to deliver, coming in late and over budget. We all pay the price for this. The reason is because much of Project Management is flawed in its thinking and execution. It doesn’t have to be this way. In his 1997 business novel called ‘Critical Chain’, Dr. Eliyahu […]
7 Symptoms of Silo Sickness that CIOs Must Cure
Most organizations are hierarchical. This way of managing means that responsibility gets divided up into functions and the ‘head’ of each function is responsible for the results of that function and the budget allocated. Isn’t this rational? After all, the notion of hierarchy is as old as the bible. Literally. Moses was introduced to it […]
