Do Not Wait Too Long To Follow The (New) Trend

Change management is like investment. It is your task as a change manager to make sure everybody follows the new trend.

Fire the Fireman to Reduce Stress and Increase Productivity and Morale

In today’s business world, conflicts are inevitable, but they don’t have to be costly or time-consuming. If you manage people or projects, chances are that a majority of your day is spent resolving conflicts, settling disputes, or solving problems for other people. You may get to the point where you ask, “How am I supposed to get my job done when I am constantly putting out fires.”

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.

Balance Strength With Heart

To be an effective leader you must have a balanced approach between accomplishing the objectives of the organization and the needs of the individuals doing the work. It simply boils down to being as fair as possible to both sides.

The Unhappy Couple: Change and Improve

In order to change, there need to be an urgency. In the story below, there is none.

Change Management: Finding the Order in Chaos

The term ‘change management’ tends to leave people in the dark, often seeming vague and somewhat mystical. “Does it have something to do with counting pennies...

What Does it Mean to be Smart?

What it means to be smart is the willingness to learn; to look for alternatives and select the best possible option; then demonstrate the competencies required to execute the plan. Our society adequately develops the required technical and intellectual skills, but we’ve missed the mark on developing essential skills that help people manage complexity.

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.

Do Not (Intent to) Change What is Fixed And What Should Remain Fixed

If you are preparing a change you should first search for some specific elements in your company. They are easily to be found.

How to Know What You Know (2)

How do you know what you know? Why do you (all of a sudden) need knowledge management and where is the gap? Are there (structural) changes in the organization?

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?

Conventional Business Change is the Problem, Not the Solution

Since the beginning of business, methods for operating and developing the business have been refined into the conventional methods used today. We improve management and effect business change by adding new conventional methods on the methods in place. But, there are problems with those methods in place that will never be solved by adding on more conventional methods. We need to take a complete new look at the way structure the enterprise in order to solve fundamental business problems.

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.