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Dec 31 2019

Celebrating a Year of Disruptive Thinking

Celebrating a Year of Disruptive Thinking

As 2019 comes to a close, all of us at Intelligent Management send our warmest wishes to those who have taken the time to read our work. We are proud to have concluded another year of disruptive thinking. It is not disruption for the sake of it, but the creative disruption that comes from challenging […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world · Tagged: 2019 top posts, disruptive thinking

Dec 19 2019

If Top Sectors Apply Critical Chain Method to Accelerate Projects, Why Does PMI Keep it Secret?

If Top Sectors Apply Critical Chain Method to Accelerate Projects, Why Does PMI Keep it Secret?

Every company has to coordinate and synchronize internal and external actions to get results. That’s the way every industry works and success depends on it. We can call it Project Management. There are thousands, if not millions, of well-meaning Project Managers around the world whose job is to help projects work. People spend millions of […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Network of Projects, project management · Tagged: critical chain, multitasking, PMI, project management

Dec 10 2019

The End of the McKinsey Model of Management Consulting?

The End of the McKinsey Model of Management Consulting?

A new book is asking why young people who arrive at college and want to change the world end up working for Goldman Sachs and McKinsey. ‘Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World’ by Anand Giridharadas explores how “the global elite’s efforts to “change the world” preserve the status quo and obscure […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: systems view of the world · Tagged: house of lies, management consulting, mckinsey

Dec 04 2019

Changing How We Think Business for the Digital Age

Changing How We Think Business for the Digital Age

We were recently asked an important question following an article of ours about the dangers of linear thinking: “I can see how organizations could get stuck in one way of thinking as it often happens. How can organizations avoid being linear while forming their strategic plan?” At Intelligent Management we take a systemic view of […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: change, core conflict, digital age, Goldratt, think business

Nov 28 2019

Why Management Urgently Needs the Scientific Method

Why Management Urgently Needs the Scientific Method

The following is an excerpt from Dr. Domenico Lepore’s new book ‘Moving The Chains’. Before I began working in the field of management, I was educated as a physicist. However, it is not necessary to be a scientist to appreciate that from Galileo Galilei and Newton onwards, all the things that we know (as opposed […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: systems view of the world · Tagged: Deming, new economics, scientific method, TPK

Nov 18 2019

From SWOT to Systemic Strategy

From SWOT to Systemic Strategy

When we published our post about how to take the SWOT analysis to a whole new level we received a lot of attention and some good questions. One of the best is below: And here is our reply: The SWOT analysis can be a helpful brainstorming tool as a first step to understand our current […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: systems view of the world · Tagged: FRT, swot analysis

Nov 12 2019

Educating Executives for Systems Leadership in the Digital Age

Educating Executives for Systems Leadership in the Digital Age

The Managing Director of the World Economic Forum recently published an article called ‘Why the World Needs Systems Leadership, Not Selfish Leadership’ The article concludes: The self-important don’t always win. Selfless leadership can create systemic change that spreads happiness – instead of hoarding it. At Intelligent Management we have been educating executives to be Systems […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world · Tagged: critical chain, Deming, leadership, SPC, systems leaders, WEF

Nov 08 2019

How to Take the SWOT Analysis to a Whole New Level

How to Take the SWOT Analysis to a Whole New Level

This week,  a client of ours drew up a SWOT analysis and it turned out to be a very productive event.  The SWOT analysis tool has been around for a very long time. The Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats categories are  comfortably familiar to many as a way of brainstorming and analyzing the current reality of […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: conflict cloud, linear thinking, swot

Oct 18 2019

Why Projects Complete “Sooner or Later”…

Why Projects Complete “Sooner or Later”…

What is a project? It’s a word that everyone is familiar with but it can mean very different things to different people. This can lead not just to misunderstandings but to intrinsic unreliability in delivery. In other words, far too many projects in the world get delivered “sooner or later” with all the knock-on negative […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: project management, Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints

Oct 10 2019

Achieving Predictability in Uncertain Times? Learn to Understand Variation

Achieving Predictability in Uncertain Times? Learn to Understand Variation

We live in such astonishingly uncertain times. So let’s do something that’s good for our mental and emotional health and  lend some attention to an aspect of management that’s grounded in science and related to predictability. This is strongly connected with our previous post about Dr. W. Edwards Deming, the father of Quality and the […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: systems view of the world · Tagged: Deming, predictability, variation

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