Build the Right Project Team for Success
Diversity is key to creative genius—but there is more to diversity than most realize. Look for diversity in these 5 areas to get the best results from your small team.
Organization Transformation
Change Partner as Coach: A Crucial Role in Change Transformation
By asking good questions and relating appropriate stories and experiences, a change partner can help leaders make the best decisions to keep their organizations on track to successful change transformation.
Beyond Paperless: How Digital Transformation Can Revolutionize Your Organization
Leveraging digital transformation in ways that transform experiences, create exponential improvements, are highly scalable, and expedite progress could result in revolutionary changes for your organization.
Developing Leaders in Times of Change & Transformation
“They just don’t get it! They have training manuals, real-time data, managers, directors, and a CRM. Why can’t all of them just exercise common sense?” Leadership during times of significant challenges or change demands skills and abilities of leaders above and beyond the typical. Some leaders naturally seem to rise … Read more
Implied Work in Organization Transformation
If you are familiar with the Cube model of organization design, you know that Work Processes is one of six elements of an organization that must all align with strategy if the organization is to attain its strategic goals successfully (the others being Structure and Governance, Information and Metrics, People … Read more
Communication Salmonella – Tips to Avoid Serving Undercooked Information
Why is it that we know we shouldn’t serve up undercooked meat, but we struggle with serving up undercooked information? This past weekend, my family came into the house and were welcomed with the delectable aroma of something baking in the oven. It wasn’t anything fancy – a nice little … Read more
Flying In The Face of Data: Why The Logical Choice Isn’t Always The Right Choice
In a world where everyone has virtually unlimited information at their fingertips, we are living in the most data-driven society ever imagined. Whether it be through an online price calculator, or comparing products side-by-side on Amazon, or just looking up facts on Google, people consult data to answer seemingly every … Read more
How to Measure and Evaluate Organization Transformation Effectiveness
Organization change is a big and complex undertaking. It is easy to get caught up in the process itself, especially when the transformation takes place over the course of months or years. But ultimately, it’s essential to stay focused on the reason for the change. At some point, the time … Read more
Ensuring Clean Hand-Offs in Organization Transformation
The idea of “passing the baton” in a relay race is often used as a metaphor for the handoffs that occur as work moves from one person or function of a business to the next. These transitions are critical junctures in organization transformation; being able to manage organization design “baton … Read more
Information – The Lifeblood of Organizations
Recently, I was with an organization that was doing some benchmarking, and we visited the sites of several companies with strong capabilities in supply chain systems and analytics. As I observed the analytical capabilities and listened to the discussions, I thought about the Information & Metrics side of the organization … Read more