Over the last 25 years, Intelligent Management has invested much of its time investigating how to go beyond the traditional hierarchical organizational structure. Transitioning from a traditional hierarchical structure to a System is neither immediate nor linear. One of the most important ways to facilitate this transition is leveraging available competencies within the organization instead […]
Beyond Continuous Improvement: Deming and Goldratt together
Why are so many companies being managed the same way as ten years ago, and with the same kind of organizational structure? It’s hardly surprising that there are a myriad of challenges when it’s clear to everyone that our reality has moved on, even if we haven’t. Trying to succeed with the same old recipes for […]
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 […]
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 […]
End Silos and Dissatisfaction: Learn to Operate as a Network of Projects Organization – A Systemic Approach Part 12
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 […]
Working with Variation to Support Good Decision Making – A Systemic Approach Part 7
In our previous post we looked at understanding variation and processes. In this post we continue with Step Three of the Decalogue Management Method, “Make the system stable (understand variation and its impact on the network)” by looking at gathering data and why that matters. What leaders and managers have to bear in mind is that […]
How to Make the Best Decisions for Your Company and Measure What Matters – A Systemic Approach Part 3
In the previous post we looked at interdependencies and establishing the goal of the system. In order to steer our system in the right direction we have to know how to make the right decisions. To do this it is essential that we be capable of assessing to what extent our system is achieving its […]
Domenico Lepore on Deming and Goldratt and a Better Way Ahead
We have all been saddened by the events this week in Europe. In these troubling times, the teachings of W. Edwards Deming remind us that we all have the power to raise humanity’s efforts to a level where everyone wins through wise and intelligent management. Yes, this is possible, and it’s been our mission for […]
Get Your Focus Back with an Antidote to Distraction – a Systems Approach
Your focus is more scattered now. This appears to be a fact. Whatever you are trying to achieve in your business or personal life is being undermined by a lack of focus. It’s not your fault. An article this week in Fast Company states that our attention has been “stolen by big and powerful forces”. […]
