Managing projects is a little like keeping canaries: One canary will flutter about quite happily in a cage Add a second canary and they will sing to each other If you have a nice big cage you may well be able to keep 5, 6, 7 or 8 canaries There is a limit though. Try […]
Customers Despise Centres of Excellence
Imagine you make pizzas for a living You are the master baker You have an army of under bakers at your disposal. They run the best fleet of pizza ovens in the country, no sooner are they given an uncooked pizza than it is baked to perfection. You run a pizza baking “centre of excellence” […]
The Easiest Way to Lose all Momentum
We all juggle time We make an art of getting every second’s worth of value out of every quarter of an hour. We employ secretaries and personal assistants to schedule our work (and they are busy people) If you have a diary that looks like a deranged zebra you will know exactly what I mean […]
How to Push Your Big Idea
There are two ways to push your next big idea: 1. The Business Case Pull together a fancy looking presentation with buckets full of analysis (discounted cash flows, net present values, operations analysis, customer value analysis, competitive positioning, the whole nine yards), it is the professional thing to do. Unfortunately: Your idea will be flat […]
Strategic Thinking: Do You Have or Need a Plan?
A strategy is a plan It is, a mechanism for getting from pont A to point B, to hit a goal. There are two ways of developing that strategy, (and two types of people the Planners and the Wingers) Method 1: Wing It (aka The Emergent Strategy) Keep your eye on the goal, then work […]
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