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Sep 06 2018

Three Steps to Optimal Performance in Any Organization

Three Steps to Optimal Performance in Any Organization

There are three steps that allow any organization to achieve optimal performance. Before we say what they are, let’s step back and understand one fundamental principle that affects how organizations get results. What happens when more than one person or more than one entity work together in the same direction? Is the result just the […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: constraint, Synchronized production, Systems Thinking, systems view of the world · Tagged: constraint, interdependencies, optimal performance, variation, vectors

May 10 2018

Structuring Collaboration for Results

Structuring Collaboration for Results

We are becoming increasingly aware of the need for collaboration and cooperation. This is not yet the mainstream for management and organizations, but the more complexity becomes the backdrop and context of what we do and experience, the more we need to find up-to-date ways to exist within that complexity. Is it just about being […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: collaboration, goal, intentions, theory of constraints, variation

Apr 27 2018

Bulldoze Business Schools? A New Systemic Curriculum for Complexity in Business and Management

Bulldoze Business Schools? A New Systemic Curriculum for Complexity in Business and Management

Our business world is changing rapidly. Complexity dominates and old solutions no longer work. Some refer to this as the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’. Given all these changes, it is remarkable to see that MBAs are offering much the same program content as 20 years ago. A Professor in the UK has gone as far as […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Network of Projects, Systems Thinking, systems view of the world · Tagged: complexity, constraint, curriculum, network of projects, project management, systems view, variation

Apr 19 2018

Creativity, Reliability and Predictability – Are They at Odds?

Creativity, Reliability and Predictability – Are They at Odds?

In times of turbulence, shock and awe, it’s hard to keep a sense of balance and where our attention needs to be. There is so much noise and so much confusion, so this post aims to remove some confusion in the world about creativity and variation. Seth Godin, so wise about many things concerning marketing […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: systems view of the world · Tagged: art, Creativity, Quality, reliability, variation

Mar 13 2018

Understanding Uncertainty and Systemic Risk in Organizations

Understanding Uncertainty and  Systemic Risk in Organizations

If we could predict the outcome of everything we do with mathematical certainty, then our lives would be much simpler. In reality, we exist within a complex web of interdependencies and such certainty is not possible. Hence, we live with uncertainty and its inevitable companion: risk. We perceive a risk any time we feel that […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: process management, risk, risk management, systemic risk, theory of constraints, uncertainty, variation

Feb 01 2018

Using Constraints as a Leverage Point for Sustainable Growth

Using Constraints as a Leverage Point for Sustainable Growth

Whether you’re aware of it or not, every organization has a constraint, something that currently limits output. Correctly identifying the constraint  is the key to managing the entire organization in all its complexity with greater precision and predictability. As we have said many times, every human process, from getting to work in the morning to […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: constraint, leverage point, variation

Jan 26 2018

Ethical, Sustainable and for the Common Good – a Playbook

Ethical, Sustainable and for the Common Good – a Playbook

As Super Bowl fever rises, it’s worth recalling that Chrystia Freeland, global editor at large for Reuters,  reviewed a book that suggests capitalism has something to learn from the NFL; it is the duty of society to ensure that the rules of capitalism are working for the common good. The NFL continuously tweaks the rules […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: common good, ethical, Quality, sustainable, systemic, variation, W. Edwards Deming

Nov 01 2017

Why a Performance Review Makes No Sense – a Systems View

Why a Performance Review Makes No Sense – a Systems View

A company is not a collection of individuals. Contemporary science helps us to understand that organizations are, instead, “complex systems”, ruled by non-linear interactions that make it difficult to make any prediction when any change is effected. That’s why any approach to improve the system has to be “holistic”, and consider all the interactions/interdependencies. The […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world · Tagged: Deming, performance measurement, performance review, SPC, variation

Oct 18 2017

Resource Optimization – Don’t Make the 100% Efficiency Mistake

Resource Optimization – Don’t Make the 100% Efficiency Mistake

Do you think getting everything in your system/organization to work at 100% is the right way to create maximum efficiency? Dr. Giovanni Siepe explains how we can learn from management science (and other sources) that there is a better way. Not too long ago I was reading about “Sukkot”, a holiday celebrated at the end […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: constraint, efficiency, finite resources, synchronization, theory of constrants, variation, W. Edwards Deming

Sep 13 2017

Freedom from the Trap of Silos through a Network of Projects

Freedom from the Trap of Silos through a Network of Projects

Many organizations still have traditional hierarchies and silo their people into functions. But the complexity of today’s reality needs something different. With the exponential growth of interconnections and interdependencies, a traditional organizational design can undermine productivity and sustainable growth. Here we summarize the organizational design we propose, based on two decades of international work, specifically applied to […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Network of Projects, Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: constraint, Deming, Goldratt, network of projects, silos, synchronization, variation

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