Strategy Engagement MatrixThe Strategy Engagement Matrix is the most powerful tool in existence for developing and engaging your people in a winning strategy – – – – … Read more |
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How design thinking transforms the strategic planning process25 years on from when engineers adapted a strategic design tool and applied it to organisation design, it is still the best strategic planning tool … Read more |
Why-How ChartingWhy-How charting is a means of thoroughly exploring the logic of the company. As a result, it helps surface an understanding of why it does … Read more |
AMRC Use Lockdown For Strategic RethinkI was speaking to a friend of mine at the weekend about how he has been using the COVID-19 hiatus to rethink his organisation’s strategy. … Read more |
Equipping your Online Meeting RoomThe online environment has a tremendous range of options for fully engaging people and their ideas in meetings. So how do you make use of … Read more |
Action Planning SheetThe Action Planning sheet is a tool for thinking through actions in respect of ensuring they will be effectively implemented. It is particularly useful where … Read more |
Conducting a Pre-MortemWhat is a Pre-Mortem? Courtesy Matt Byrom, Siemens plc In conventional project management, when you undertake a risk assessment, people are asked to say what … Read more |
The $500 betThis particular exercise is based on the results of a survey undertaken by a consulting organisation of failed and delayed projects. In their interviews of the … Read more |
SessionLab meeting/workshop planning toolSession plans are key to ensuring a efficient meeting, particularly when the meeting is large, long, complex and covering new ground. I use session plans as an … Read more |
How to Build a Better BusinessHow to Build a Better Business is an e-book. It contains straightforward guidance on how to use QFD to design and manage your organisation, and … Read more |
Activity Network DiagramThe Activity Network Diagram is one of the Seven Management and Planning Tools. |
Tree DiagramThe Tree Diagram is one of the Seven Management and Planning Tools. The Tree Diagram is a tool to explore exactly what needs to be done … Read more |
Interrelationship DigraphThe Interrelationship Digraph is one of the Seven Management and Planning Tools. It is frequently used to further explore the groups that develop out of the affinity … Read more |
Seven Management and Planning toolsOne of the real strengths of the Japanese is a tendency to standardise and simplify wherever possible. Faced with an ever increasing number of management … Read more |
What is meta?The term ‘meta’ is used when something refers to itself or, as Wikipedia explains, it is a concept which is an abstraction behind another concept, … Read more |