Organizational Change is a Complex Phenomenon.
Change happens one person at a time. Each individual will make up their own mind about why they will accept and cooperate with change....
Inclusive Problem Solving Engages Employees, Strengthens Culture and Accelerates Problem Solving
Background Ravasi and Schultz (2006) define organizational culture as a set of shared mental assumptions that guide interpretation and...
Business Transformation
A client recently asked, "What is Business Transformation"? There are various explanations offered in literature and on the Internet....
Adapt a Change Program to the Company's Culture
Edgar Schein's Culture Model: The issue: Recently I was in a discussion about the challenge of organizational change, even where the need...
Removing Barriers to Productivity: #3 Categorizing Barriers
To date we’ve discussed the concept of a productivity barrier removal process. Central to this is to establish how long work should take...
Removing Barriers to Productivity: Team Building Process
Problem-solving, Art and Science: We’ve covered all the basics in the barrier removal process with one exception: working with people to...
Remove Barriers to Productivity - An Old/New Concept, Stage 1 of 5
Our blog on short-interval-scheduling (SIS) pointed out how SIS is one of the least promoted, underutilized, yet most effective methods...
Improvement Program Cross-fertilization
Lean Six Sigma and TPM are both highly effective programs. Some practitioners are purists, eschewing alternate methods. "Don't corrupt...
The Stewards of Employee Engagement
Employee engagement is increasingly a corporate priority. It has become a CEO-level issue. The payoff is in increased productivity and...
Stage 2. Removing Barriers to Productivity: Time as a Management Tool
This is the second in a series of blogs posts describing an ongoing process of problem solving. This edition speaks to using time as a...
