In our fast-changing world, books are still something that people value. With our sixth book coming out in August 2024, we’re delighted at the success of our series of posts on LinkedIn offering mini reviews of books by Deming, Goldratt and the books on our Decalogue methodology. Nearly 100,000 impressions and many hundreds of interactions […]
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.
Synchronizing Competencies Accelerates Throughput and Overcomes Silos
Over the last 25 years, Intelligent Management has invested much of its time investigating how to go beyond the traditional hierarchical organizational structure. Transitioning from a traditional hierarchical structure to a System is neither immediate nor linear. One of the most important ways to facilitate this transition is leveraging available competencies within the organization instead […]
Beyond Continuous Improvement: Deming and Goldratt together
Why are so many companies being managed the same way as ten years ago, and with the same kind of organizational structure? It’s hardly surprising that there are a myriad of challenges when it’s clear to everyone that our reality has moved on, even if we haven’t. Trying to succeed with the same old recipes for […]
Are Your Management Methods and Style Obsolete?
Our team has been on the road internationally again over the last couple of months, introducing more companies to a management method for our age of complexity. People are looking for answers in our troubling times and our systemic approach is proving to be a robust response. Now that we are back in Canada, our […]
The Science of Thinking Breakthroughs from Dr. Domenico Lepore for Today’s Complex Business Environment
And now for something completely different… Do you want to hear insight and foresight about business like you’ve never heard before? Dr. Domenico Lepore is one of the most provocative, knowledgeable and impactful business thinkers today. (And yes, he’s our Founder!) Today’s post is a quick break from our series on a systemic approach to org […]
Shifting Your Focus from Cost to Throughput is How You Can Thrive – a Systemic Approach Part 15
In the previous posts in this series, we looked at how to build and manage an organization as a system to radically improve performance and compete in today’s complex, non-linear global business environment. This is what the Decalogue methodology was designed to do. So what happens when the company achieves a much higher level of […]
End Silos and Dissatisfaction: Learn to Operate as a Network of Projects Organization – A Systemic Approach Part 12
Physicists are educated to ask fundamental questions to understand the nature of things and to understand them in terms of energy and speed. What has that got to do with management, you may wonder? A great deal. An organization is a complex system where different forms of energy interdepend: human energy, mechanical energy, electrical and […]
