Tables and Decision Logic
So, this week we are resuming where we left off at the end of the last post, dealing with tables and broader frameworks for capturing […]
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Analysing the heck out of decisions
So finally – after deferring it off for several posts – we have made it back to decision analysis and the use of decision tables. […]
Documentation isn’t cool – so what’s the point?
We have been thinking recently about organisational change and how it can be implemented. Last fortnight’s post focussed on how to make the change stick […]
Making the Change Stick
Last post we talked about different faces and strategies to making change. So I thought that this week we would follow up with some specific […]
Making Change and Fishing Tackle
Ok, ignore what I said last week. So much for making an executive decision to skip this part of the continuous improvement cycle. That is […]
Planning Changing
Ok gang. So the last two posts have been on documenting and then improving the steps followed to undertake an activity (yes, no matter how […]
Inevitable Logic and Process Improvement
Given we have spent the last couple of posts exploring how to document activity steps and how to elicit them, it is fitting that we […]
Techniques for Tapping Procedures
Oh heck. It has been one of those fortnights and somehow my usual blog-writing commutes got gobbled up by work and conversation. But my next […]
Charting the Flow
Finally here’s the subject I’ve been waiting for! Not because the other topics we’ve covered are irrelevant or mundane. Nope, this is more of a […]
The Leader’s Handbook – About a Book
Today we are doing something a little bit different and instead of exploring my next planned topic, I will be reviewing – or enthusiastically regurgitating […]
Putting Risk in its Place
Hmmmm. Just looking at that word ‘risk’ gets me a bit scared. It’s silly really. There are tiny risks, infinitesimally unlikely risks, funny risks and […]
Taking your business seriously
I seem to mention a certain man, a Mr Ronald G. Ross, an awful lot in this blog. In fact I did some online training […]
Chartering New Waters in Strategic Thinking
How do you drive out the strategy for your organisation? Is it through brainstorming? Is it a bit more tokenistic and a matter of retrofitting […]
Reading for Pleasure or Pain
Identifying the boundaries of your organisation and its operations is a fundamental part of its strategic framework and it generally uses a different skill set […]
Creativity in Catalysing
Today we are going away from traditional management material again to have some fun with the documentation of strategy. You see, writing a mission, goals […]
Applying Logic to the Stars
It’s a good thing that I’d committed to doing the next post on ‘goal frameworks’ because between then and now I might have chickened out. […]
SWOTting for Goal Setting
Over the last two posts we’ve talked about generic techniques for generating and analysing ideas. However the time has come to move back toward the […]
Keeping it Clean – Sorting Ideas for Success
The opportunities associated with generating lots of ideas are only realised when you know what to do with them. Surely no one can argue with […]
A perfect (brain) storm
We are going to ease into our discussion of useful practices for establishing a solid and successful organisational program with a fairly common one – […]
Exploring practices – an introduction
I have written several times in the last nine months that processes are the ultimate form of implementation. To achieve an outcome, there’s no point […]
Deeming Deming and Profound Knowledge
W. Edwards Deming was, amongst many things, a statistician, electrical engineer and author who lived from 1900 to 1993. He is fascinating to read about […]
Reporting Data off into the Sunset
Over the last couple of posts we’ve been looking at the reporting part of an organisational framework and hopefully you’ll be happy to hear we’re […]
Fixing Teeth and Performance Reporting
Performance reporting to some people seems akin to a root canal… except that it keeps happening over and over again. Why do I say that? […]
Fruitful metrics and KPIs – a Story
Imagine you are the boss of a lolly shop selling the most colourful range of fruit chews ever made. Orange and banana, lime and kiwi […]
Intriguing Decision Tables
I’ve been looking forward to this fortnight’s post as it’s on a topic which intrigues me, but that I haven’t explored too much in the […]