The Business Roundtable recently announced a major policy change declaring that the purpose of a corporation is not just to serve shareholders – its official position since 1997 – but “to create value for all our stakeholders.” Over the last 25 years, Intelligent Management has developed and implemented a systemic approach to management that inherently brings attention to the […]
The Human Advantage of Every Leader Over Technology
We recently heard about a company that has been struggling for some time to deliver their service in a satisfactory way. Life in that company has become a daily, stressful grind. Leadership has tried several things to lift morale but the disappointing numbers on the balance sheet continue to worsen. To solve these issues, […]
Never Take Peace for Granted – It’s a Thought Process
Today is Holocaust Memorial day. This is also a week where a shooting in a Chabad synagogue in San Diego, California, led to the loss of life and injuring of innocent people. So today I am presenting again some thoughts about peace and a concrete process that can help to build it, among individuals, in […]
Competitiveness at National Level – Lepore Unleashed
Today’s post is by our Founder Dr. Domenico Lepore, based on the speech he was asked to give about ‘Competitiveness at National Level’ at the Horasis Global Forum last week. There is a very long “Laundry List” of elements at play in creating competitiveness for a Nation: from Education to Healthcare, from Transparency to Cybersecurity, […]
Let’s Engineer Systemic Strength NOT Systemic Collapse
A frightening article this week talks about the risks of “systemic collapse”. The gathering storm of human-caused threats to climate, nature and economy pose a danger of systemic collapse comparable to the 2008 financial crisis, according to a new report that calls for urgent and radical reform to protect political and social systems. How did […]
Deming and Goldratt: The Software
At Intelligent Management we are excited to announce the arrival of something we’ve been working on for some time. Helping organizations to break down barriers, overcome silos and unleash people’s potential to speed up flow is our focus. Now we have a piece of technology to support the effort required. It’s called Ess3ntial and our […]
Intelligent Management of Resources for the Digital Age
It has been a momentous period for us at Intelligent Management, both locally and globally. We have become Canadian citizens and so we enter a new phase as North Americans officially. It has been a long journey. We also learned that our business novel, ‘The Human Constraint’ has now been bought in 35 countries around […]
Building a Better Future of Work
What is going to happen to jobs with all the new technologies that are fast transforming how we work? It’s a subject that raises big questions and a great deal of anxiety. The more our work becomes digital and decentralized, the more it will become streamlined and redundancies will be eliminated. Is this all […]
Management Reboot: A Theory of Everything
There are those who seek to divide and separate, close borders, thinking that this is a better way to “compete”. Instead, the way we manage, produce, buy and sell can bring people closer together; it can be a way of mending the world. When we begin to see that the everyday tasks of business are […]
How to Start Building Cooperation for the Digital Future
Digitization will inevitably lead organizations to shift their way of working in radical ways, especially regarding cooperation. Dr. Domenico Lepore writes here about transforming the enterprise for the digital future. According to Gartner senior VP Dale Kutnick, digitalization will require: business development; the IT department and the product management or engineering team – to work […]
