In every organization, there is a consistent need to make timely crucial decisions at all levels. This is critical more so at the strategic level where senior leaders are anticipated to possess a strong ability to make systematic and integrated choices. However, this isn’t simple and there isn’t a straight path to accomplish this either. […]
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Lean Product Development: Talent Development
Top products are the creation of top designers and developers. Lean Product Development helps in developing expert designers and developers, who are excellent problem solvers and are adept at creating innovative solutions. Developing Key Talent for Product Management accelerates Innovation and time to market while lowering costs. Managers responsible for developing creative products and solutions need […]
What Is Redeployment? The Most Critical Phase of Restructuring
Business Transformation is a given in the lifecycle of organizations. If an organization or business desires to continue growing gainfully, it has to keep Restructuring and Innovating with time. Successful Restructuring can be achieved by pursuing a robust 4-phase approach. Each incremental phase paves the way for shaping the next phase: Strategic Analysis Structural Redesign Redeployment […]
The Strategic Goals Grid, an Alternative Framework to SWOT Analysis
One of the most popular Strategic Planning tool among executives is the SWOT analysis (or SWOT matrix). However, sometimes assessing the organization’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats is not enough to set the direction for the planning process or to implement Business Transformation. An alternative framework to SWOT analysis is the Strategic Goals Grid (SGG). […]
Learning to Unlearn and Relearn
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” – Alvin Toffler We all used to listen and read about learning and its best techniques in addition to different learning and learners’ styles but it’s not popular to read or hear […]
Why You Should Invest in Your Employees’ Education
Any successful business owner or senior level manager will know that investing in employees is essential to the smooth running and the success of their business. Taking the time to invest in your employees ensures a high level of employee satisfaction, something which can often be necessary in order for the company to be productive, […]
An Ideal Tool for Education Agencies and Coaches
Editor’s Note: Training-Online.eu is an e-learning platform and a partner of Flevy. * * * * While creating customized projects for their clients, education agencies always try to make the time spent on the project as short as possible, to achieve high profitability and to reduce the financial risks arising from buying tools such as […]
The Highway of Change and a Practical Framework Approach to Change
Since Monday, 9th January 2015, my free Flevy download Practical Framework Approach to Change has been downloaded over 500 times. The document contains just a “snapshot” of my approach, rather than going into any explicit details about the tools and techniques related to each of the framework components. The level of interest shown has spurred me into writing […]
Make Change That Lasts
Change is the only constant. – Heraclictus, Greek Philosopher Change is the only constant in the work environment Whether you are shifting office to another location, adopting a new practice or process, implementing an IT system, or re-engineering the business processes for an organization, change happens to everyone all the time. However, many change initiatives have been short-lived as […]
SAP and Change Management
As a “seasoned” Change Manager, I have been involved in many diverse projects focusing on managing the business aspect of technology implementations; e.g. ERP (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics), Core Banking Systems, Business Intelligence, Case Working and Knowledge Management solutions, and the like. To this day, I continue to be asked why is there a need […]
Human Resources and Change Management
There are currently many debates on Social Networking sites (specifically on LinkedIn) about the integration of Project Management (PM) and Change Management (CM) and whether the two can actually be successfully carried out by one person. I have a personal view about the integration of PM and CM, which was the subject of a previous […]
