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18 Excellent Reasons to Write Down What You Do

February 1, 2017February 1, 2017Sophie Hansen

Superior Business Analysis is based on a fairly simple premise – that to improve what you do, you need to think about what you do. […]

23 Ways to Remember Important Things (about your Organisation)

January 4, 2017January 19, 2017Sophie Hansen

An organisation I once worked for invested a great amount of effort in defining its strategic plan every few years. This is obviously an essential […]

Gift #6

An Analysis of Exceptional Success

December 6, 2016December 6, 2016Sophie Hansen

I love it those times when something you would really like, whether you know it or not, just arrives without you doing anything to get […]

Why you should manage processes not (just) projects

August 18, 2014January 5, 2017Sophie Hansen

Project management is a big thing in the corporate and public sector world and there are therefore often high expectations about how projects are delivered. […]

Tables and Decision Logic

June 16, 2014July 28, 2014superiorbusinessanalysis

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 […]

Analysing the heck out of decisions

June 2, 2014July 28, 2014superiorbusinessanalysis

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?

May 5, 2014July 28, 2014superiorbusinessanalysis

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

April 21, 2014July 28, 2014superiorbusinessanalysis

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

April 7, 2014July 28, 2014superiorbusinessanalysis

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

March 24, 2014July 28, 2014superiorbusinessanalysis

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

March 10, 2014July 28, 2014superiorbusinessanalysis

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

February 24, 2014July 28, 2014superiorbusinessanalysis

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

February 10, 2014July 28, 2014superiorbusinessanalysis

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

January 27, 2014July 28, 2014superiorbusinessanalysis

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

January 13, 2014July 28, 2014superiorbusinessanalysis

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

December 16, 2013July 28, 2014superiorbusinessanalysis

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

December 2, 2013July 28, 2014superiorbusinessanalysis

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

November 18, 2013July 28, 2014superiorbusinessanalysis

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

November 4, 2013July 28, 2014superiorbusinessanalysis

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

October 21, 2013July 28, 2014superiorbusinessanalysis

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

September 30, 2013July 28, 2014superiorbusinessanalysis

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

September 16, 2013July 28, 2014superiorbusinessanalysis

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

September 2, 2013July 28, 2014superiorbusinessanalysis

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

August 19, 2013July 28, 2014superiorbusinessanalysis

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

August 5, 2013July 28, 2014superiorbusinessanalysis

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 […]

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