23 Ways to Remember Important Things (about your Organisation)
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 […]
Goals
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 […]
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 – […]
Value Chaining for Government
Ok I’ve decided that we’ll stick with value chains for another week, for 3 reasons…. 1. The more I think about them the more […]
Chaining Actions to Value
One thing that often is missed by organisations is an understanding of how their complex operations contribute toward the satisfaction of the end user. There […]
Traceability in Following your Dreams
With the start of 2013 and a new set of New Year’s resolutions, it seems like the perfect time to talk about how to fulfil […]
Adding the SMARTs to Business Goals
It seems as though even something as common-sense as ‘business goals’ is not remotely clear cut. The definition, scope, method of realisation and measure of […]