How is your Business Agility restrained by your approach to decision making?
Why do successful organisations pursue established strategies for too long? The hypothesis behind this blog is that it is a consequence of the way they make decisions.
Silos, Teams and Data
A classic organisational dilemma. Optimise performance in a component of a business by establishing strong teams that are allowed to insulate themselves – perhaps in Silos – or focus on removing all internal barriers to optimise cross functional excellence and agility. I believe that Leaders can do more to optimise a balance between building efficient teams (ones that develop excellence within their particular domain) and enterprise wide effectiveness that minimises internal silo barriers to optimise agility. Moreover, enterprises that optimise this balance have a better foundation for maximising the value of their organisational data.
An Excellent Team?
England’s victory over New Zealand was a great experience to witness at Twickenham on Saturday. I thought the performance was a tremendous example of a team having the ambition and commitment to proactively engage with the competition and the talent and architecture to execute this successfully. Gareth Jones, a […]
How do your Corporate Values and your People influence your Strategic Direction?
How much consideration do you give to corporate values as a leadership team? Develops its ambition for your Enterprise? Sets corporate direction and incentivises the performance necessary? The recent Employee Outlook report produced by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) suggests that 40% of employees […]
Using “Perishable” Information in Big Data Sets
How can your enterprise secure value from the increasing amounts of data that is being collected through an ever increasing numbers of sensors, stored, analysed and interrogated by ever more sophisticated systems? My strong sense is to stick to foundation principals and start by asking how you can improve […]
Setting Strategic Direction
How is Strategic Direction set in your organisation? The short time horizons in some enterprises – not least where tenure in the C suite is short and the primary focus is on meeting analyst’s expectations for the quarter – reduces the attraction of classical strategic planning. Nevertheless I believe […]
Using Social Media to Improve Change Initiatives
As I reflected on the recent attention being given to being agile – on the basis that volatility has become a way of life (for example Accenture’s Outlook and the McKinsey’s Quarterly), the ever increasing competitive rivalry and strict financial controls, I revisited some of the change management literature and […]
The Voices of your Employees
The latest “Voice and Value” event at the London School of Economics highlighted the research that Employee Voice as a key driver of employee engagement and performance and that this is being reflected by the topic moving up the leadership agenda. To reinforce the former, The Chartered Institute of […]
Talent Considerations
The premium placed on tight management of discretionary expenditure during our prolonged period of tough economic conditions has made investment in staff a courageous decision in many enterprises – be it the cost of recruiting new staff the development of existing staff or indeed succession planning. As […]
Effective Delegation
As part of Efficienarta’s methods for helping organisations improve their processes, short Corporate Governance “diagnostics” are offered to help target business improvement projects on areas where the most value can be added to overall Corporate Governance. Diagnostics have identified specific delegation requirements such as a requirement for the Board […]