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Jan 06 2021

Identifying Assumptions to Unlock Innovation and Move Beyond the Crisis – Out of the Crisis Series Part 6

Identifying Assumptions to Unlock Innovation and Move Beyond the Crisis – Out of the Crisis Series Part 6

In the previous part of this series, Part 5: Learning to Think Systemically to Make Informed Decisions and Pre-empt a Crisis, we saw how the Conflict Cloud Thinking Process helps us identify a situation of blockage and understand why this blockage exists in the first place. What keeps us stuck is the set of assumptions, or […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world · Tagged: assumptions, injection, innovation, out of the crisis conflict, out of the crisis series

Nov 23 2018

Using Your Constraints to Improve Business Performance

Using Your Constraints to Improve Business Performance

On a client’s website, they rightfully explain that their technology frees their customers of certain constraints. What exactly do we mean by constraints and are they a totally bad thing? We all want more freedom. A constraint would seem, by definition, to be something that robs us of freedom. But what we need to do […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: constraints, innovation, leverage point, Thinking Processes

May 01 2018

Continuous Innovation: Why Leaders Must Upgrade Their Thinking Skills

Continuous Innovation: Why Leaders Must Upgrade Their Thinking Skills

There is a lot of noise in our world today about innovation, particularly technological innovation. Undoubtedly, technology is a powerful aid to sustain transformation, but we need to understood what innovation really means. For managers and leaders, the question of innovation and technology has to be a fundamental part of their education process. Innovation Can (and Must) Be […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: continuous innovation, executive education, innovation, MBA, technology, Thinking Process Tools

Feb 07 2018

Tackling our Cognitive Constraints to Get to Breakthrough

A major stumbling block to growth for organizations lies in their cognitive constraints. In other words, there are mental models, or, more simply, limiting beliefs that prevent us from seeing solutions. In the Decalogue approach, we have worked over the last 20 years with hundreds of top and middle managers to build custom made implementations […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: breakthrough, cognitive constraint, core conflict, innovation, Thinking Process Tools

Mar 10 2017

How Innovation Can Make Companies Smarter

How Innovation Can Make Companies Smarter

Dr. Domenico Lepore, an international expert on systems thinking for management and Founder of Intelligent Management Inc. completes this mini-series on innovation. Focus and continuous innovation An organization requires great focus in order to keep up with the continuous innovation process. The focus needed can only be developed as a result of an improved “collective […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world · Tagged: innovation, network of projects, organizational design, PDSA, scientific method, systemic intelligence

Mar 09 2017

Innovation, Leadership and Quality: How They Interconnect

Innovation, Leadership and Quality: How They Interconnect

Dr. Domenico Lepore, Founder of Intelligent Management Inc. and international expert in Quality and Systems Thinking for organizations, continues his series on Innovation. Leadership: definition and role Earlier in this series we suggested the first 2 steps towards prosperous innovation: 1) creating an operational definition (see Prosperous Innovation) 2) challenging the assumption that imagination is […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world · Tagged: innovation, leadership, network of projects, Quality

Mar 07 2017

Imagination and Innovation

Imagination and Innovation

Continuing from our post yesterday, Prosperous Innovation. Imagination and Innovation – are they the same? In our previous post, we suggested there are several steps towards prosperous innovation, the first of which is to create an operational definition for innovation. The second step is to invalidate the flawed assumption that equates “imagination” with “Innovation”. Imagination […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world · Tagged: change, imagination, innovation, pdsa cycle, Quality

Mar 06 2017

Prosperous Innovation

Prosperous Innovation

What better subject matter for our new blog layout than innovation? This post is by Dr. Domenico Lepore, an international expert on systems thinking for management. Together with Oded Cohen he developed the Decalogue Management Methodology, combining the management philosophy of the founding father of Quality, W. Edwards Deming, with the Theory of Constraints.  Innovation […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world · Tagged: Apple, government funding, innovation

Feb 24 2017

Why Organizations Get Stuck

Why Organizations Get Stuck

  Every kind of organization aspires to achieve its goal with increasing effectiveness. In order to do so, it has to do two fundamental things: grow innovate It has to grow because every living organism is either growing or its dying. It has to innovate because the reality it interacts with is constantly evolving. To […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: Decalogue methodology, Deming, Goldratt, innovation, legacy, stuck

Feb 01 2017

True Innovation: How to Do It

True Innovation: How to Do It

What exactly is innovation? One thing it is not is “a good idea”. There are plenty of good ideas in the world but that is not enough to build a project, let alone a start-up. And yet it happens. Time, money and resources are invested in “good ideas” that do not have legs and so […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: assumptions, immigrants, innovation, mental models, Thinking Process Tools

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