Blogs on Strategic Planning and Management Systems
If there’s anything tangible that teaches us about our significance, it’s the universe. We all know it’s huge, expansive and a largely unknown ‘something’ in which we happen to exist, to many of us only known as lots of black night time darkness that’s filled with billions of stars. It’s easy to forget that our little but precious home, which we call Earth, actually swims as a microscopic, minute clump of dirt in an ocean that’s incomprehensively large. Here’s 7 billion of us, living ...
Updated 05-02-2012 at 04:00 PM by Raymond
Teams that face stalemates in their innovation, problem solving and improvement efforts may suffer from Text Myopia. A solution may be to adopt new ways of thinking. A while ago I consulted to an organization as part of a team that saw itself challenged by a number of seemingly irresolvable issues. The client's revenues and profits dwindled rapidly and drastic intervention was needed to change the trajectory bottom lines had taken. We devised a plan that could ...
Updated 11-19-2011 at 12:23 PM by Raymond
In researching this question for more than eight months I turned my attention to more than five hundred papers, reports and articles on the topic to distil and formulate a comprehensive answer. Not only was this research a consequence of my own curiosity but a concerted attempt on my part to help the C-level executives with whom I am partnering currently gain clarity on the topic. More specifically, this work also underpins the ongoing development of our Innovation Lab Programme. ...