“When you’re through changing, you’re through.” – Bruce Barton (Early 20th Century Advertising Executive) Ahh, consultants!—purveyors of ideas, concepts and theoretical models. As I am considered a member of this distinguished fraternity, I realize that at times we create more problems than solutions. Take change, for example. Most clients want projects completed quickly at the lowest cost possible….
3rd EU Operational Excellence Summit, Budapest & Milan Download Strategic Role of Leaders The 3rd Annual EU Operational Excellence Summit organized by XONITEK Group of Companies took place at the beginning of June in Budapest and Milan. It was an international forum for practitioners, experts and academics where strategies and methods of achieving operational excellence…
John Borneman here. In today’s rapidly changing business environment “solid” teamwork is critical for delivering outstanding results. To truly achieve extraordinary results your team needs to lock on to key best practices or what we call Force Multipliers. Below are four critical Force Multipliers that can help make your team a High Performing Team.
To remain competitive in the market requires management to take an active role in recognizing and acknowledging that the business environment is changing daily. As Sullivan and Harper (1996) explain, “Today, we face fundamental shifts in technology, markets, human resource development, global distribution, information management, government intervention, and other critical dimensions of the strategic environments in…
Six Sigma and other significant development projects too often do not fulfill their promise. In business, the public sector, academic and military sectors, failure and missed expectations plague innovation projects, technology implementations and other programs. In a recent Innovation Conference in Shanghai, a global corporate executive discussed broadly-based research which showed that 90 percent of companies did…
