It’s a new year and this month the Intelligent Management team are completing a new book! We are particularly honoured to be publishing something again with Springer, this time as part of their SpringerBriefs in Complexity Series. While our new book will appeal to those interested in the most scientific and mathematical aspects of managing […]
Continuous Learning is a Must for Organizations Today – A Systemic Approach Part 18
External reality continues to change at a hectic pace and we still have to guarantee that our organization is working properly and achieving its goal. This means we have to ensure a mechanism is in place that allows us to generate and update the knowledge we need in order to manage our system. A systemic […]
Why HR Is So Much More than a Department – A Systemic Approach Part 17
To be economically sustainable, a company must be designed for speed of flow. When we build an organization taking into consideration its constraint, we have a focus point or leverage point that allows us to do so much more with all the resources available towards a common goal. Without this advantage, any organization inevitably wastes […]
Are Your Management Methods and Style Obsolete?
Our team has been on the road internationally again over the last couple of months, introducing more companies to a management method for our age of complexity. People are looking for answers in our troubling times and our systemic approach is proving to be a robust response. Now that we are back in Canada, our […]
Sell More of What Your Company Does with the Resources You Already Have (External Constraint) – A Systemic Approach Part 16
The customer is the most important link in the chain. This is what Dr. Deming used to say. Accordingly, a successful organization must have a built-in mechanism in the way it operates that allows it to understand and satisfy the needs of the customer. Having a reliable method is the most effective way to use […]
The Science of Thinking Breakthroughs from Dr. Domenico Lepore for Today’s Complex Business Environment
And now for something completely different… Do you want to hear insight and foresight about business like you’ve never heard before? Dr. Domenico Lepore is one of the most provocative, knowledgeable and impactful business thinkers today. (And yes, he’s our Founder!) Today’s post is a quick break from our series on a systemic approach to org […]
Shifting Your Focus from Cost to Throughput is How You Can Thrive – a Systemic Approach Part 15
In the previous posts in this series, we looked at how to build and manage an organization as a system to radically improve performance and compete in today’s complex, non-linear global business environment. This is what the Decalogue methodology was designed to do. So what happens when the company achieves a much higher level of […]
Are Companies with a Hierarchical/Functional Mindset Dinosaurs? A Systemic Approach Part 14
If you are a company that has a Hierarchical/Functional mindset, are you a dinosaur? We would say yes and time is running out for such companies in today’s complex scenario. It is also an enormous opportunity for all those companies who decide to abandon flawed thinking and adopt an evolved approach. In today’s post, Dr. […]
Company Functions Are Limiting Your Organization’s Performance – A Systemic Approach Part 13
There is something very flawed in the traditional hierarchy/ function style of management for today’s world where speed of flow is key: it creates artificial separations inside a company. This separation interferes directly with performance because it interrupts the natural flow of interactions. We continue in this post with Step 7 of the Decalogue: ‘Create […]
End Silos and Dissatisfaction: Learn to Operate as a Network of Projects Organization
Physicists are educated to ask fundamental questions to understand the nature of things and to understand them in terms of energy and speed. What has that got to do with management, you may wonder? A great deal. An organization is a complex system where different forms of energy interdepend: human energy, mechanical energy, electrical and […]
