Effective Design

Bringing products to market effectively and rapidly will increase market share, reduce on-going costs, increase the life of the product and overall transform business profitability. Concurrent Design is about helping organisations achieve high levels of effectiveness in the development of new physical and virtual products.

More Change Demands More Leadership

Now, more than ever, organizations need the bonding glue of a strong culture to hold everything and everyone together. At the core of that culture is a strong leader pulling the team together.

Ten Parameters of Good Corporate Culture

Six unhealthy types of corporate culture is discussed followed by the introduction of 10 parameters of good corporate culture

The Inevitability Of Change

Recent studies have shown that industrial supervisors are working at less than 60 % of their potential. Basic management skills training is guaranteed to change all this and at such little cost.

Leaning Health - Transforming the Health Service

Lean is a concept whose time has come in transforming the Health Service and this article provides a proven model for implementing rapid, significant and sustainable change across primary and secondary health services.

The Smallest Intervention You Can Think Of

Change is amongst other things about intervention. Significant interventions provoke resistance. Think of another way. And you can stay close to what you learn at home.

American Auto Makers Have to Change - So Do We!

The past few weeks have presented nothing but bad news for the formerly world leading American automobile industry. Henry Ford must be rolling over in his tomb. Alfred Sloan, the architect of the multi-division General Motors juggernaut, is a very sad “car guy” in the sky these days. Plant closings, huge employee layoffs, lost market share and horrid fiscal performance indicate that the “big three” (including Daimler-Chrysler) are in big trouble. They must change, and change is not pleasant for huge business complexes, or for employees, suppliers or customers. We live in a global market place. Nothing will change that. If foreign auto companies make better products at a better price we have to confront, and overcome, these market realities. Americans always have in the past, and there is no reason not to foresee a bright, but different future, for every current participant involved in the radical restructuring of our formerly great auto business.

Changing Organizations

Organizational change is always difficult because behavioral patterns must be completely rearranged. This aspect will result in a tendency to resist change. The question is: how and when do organizations change? In this article three theories of organizational change will be discussed.

How to Know What You Know (3)

...In many situations we act without even knowing why we act the way we do...This is no longer desirable when your organization is changing too often...Knowledge Management is (amongst other aspects) about making the “private” knowledge “publicly” available...So that you can bridge the Knowledge Gap...But your organization was not used to this. Different teams applied different principles...And now what? How to address this new set of principles so that knowledge management is adopted in the primary process?

Accept What Can't Be Changed and Change What Can Be

Accepting responsibility for choices starts with understanding where our choices lie. We may not choose what happens to us, but we do choose how to respond – or not.

How to Help Someone Else Get Organized - Without the Headaches

Organizing others is not an obvious task, even if you are organized yourself. This article will give you: tips on how to identify if the person you are thinking of it truly disorganized or if it is an appearance issue, and how to address this; what to do and not to do if the person is truly disorganized; resources to help you proceeed.

A Personal Reminiscence Of a Gradual Change

The second industrial revolution: reinventing your business on the Web, is a book that I received from (former) professor of MIT John Donovan when I attended his conference in Paris in 1999 about the same topic. I recently re-opened the book accidentally and found an interesting part about change management...

Organizational Change and How Goal Setting Can Help

Many change programs seem to meander along with no clear purpose or direction. These are the programs that usually fail. In the end, vast resources are consumed and people are left burned out and confused. Don’t let this happen to your change program. Find out how you can use the powerful technique of goal setting to help ensure that your change initiative meets success.