Thought Leadership

Technology continues to amplify organizations' content and information overload. Thought Leadership surrounds how organizations can effectively and efficiently sift through data to elevate data to information and then to the level of intelligence has become critical for the survival of most organizations. Staff has to enable solutions within critical time frames and most of the time they have to battle with irrelevant information.

For over 60 years, Dr. Charles Kepner has been one of the pioneers in problem solving process consulting - asking the right questions from the right information sources that enable people to maximize their collaboration and performance. Today, Thinking Dimensions, led by Dr. Matthys Fourie, continues to develop and create next generation thinking methodologies that place our clients at the forefront of best practice application and understanding how to use process tools to address improving business results. The key is to work with minimalistic data to enable investigation and solution finding exercises to be conducted swiftly, accurately and with maximum consensus.

This leadership along with global client feedback and expertise from the TD partner network, strategic alliances, and new mediums for delivery, enables relevant and systematic solutions and insights to be realized by our global clients.
This is corroborated in the numerous articles written by the staff of Thinking Dimensions and as well as the recent "Innovation of the Year Award" bestowed upon them by the itSMF organization.

itSMFA Chairman Kathryn Heaton noted that,
Thinking Dimensions has taken an innovative approach to addressing processes behind managing major IT incidents and identifying root causes to reduce the risk of recurrence.  It has researched, designed and developed tools and techniques that may be used by Major Incident Managers to lessen the impact of major incidents on IT departments,” she concluded.



Latest News

  • 2012-04-25 11:20:43


    "The speaking assignment topic is: "How to Find the Accurate Problem Management Root Cause – FIRST TIME EVERY TIME!"

    "One of the biggest frustrations for Problem Management staff is re-creating the information involved in an incident. This also creates one of the largest costs to IT divisions & organisations as the difficulty in finding the correct root cause may mean the root of an incident situation is not eliminated and the incident keeps recurring.

    It is time to put an end to this, because there is a very effective way to rectify it. The most important challenge is to create a consistent Model and Process, which would earn the respect and support of Incident and Problem Investigators. A model that removes the confusion and inaccuracy with terminology where some companies have hundreds of causes to work through and on the other side of the scale some companies are looking at only three root causes, one of which is “Human Error”".

  • 2012-03-27 11:56:24


    "The following article appeared in the March 19, 2012 issue of Furniture Today"



    SAN DIEGO - John Case promoted everyone attending Myriad Software's 18th annual User's Conference here to president, and then went to work explaining how to use focus, accountability and teamwork to build successful companies.



    Case, a former president of La-Z-Boy Residential, then CEO of Electrolux Home Products of North America, walked retailers here through the concept of what he calls F.A.T. leadership, using the aforementioned attributes to align a business for success - the perfect tie-in for a Myriad conference themed "Alliance."

  • 2012-01-24 14:58:30


     

    Thinking Dimensions CEO and Managing Director of ITRCA Practice, Matt Fourie (See Matt's Profile) will be speaking at itSMF Conference in Singapore on March 16th 2012 : "HARDWARE, SOFTWARE UPGRADES…WHAT ABOUT A PEOPLE UPGRADE IN IT ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS?"

    This session will concentrate on how IT Root Cause Analysis practices can impact the following bottom line metrics;
    Improved security
    Reduced operating costs without cutting overheads
    Improved service availability in all critical systems

  • 2011-08-09 20:16:55


    Thinking Dimensions won the itSMF Australia "Innovation of the Year" award. Thinking Dimensions received this award at an itSMF Australia Gala in Perth in August 2011. They won the award for their innovative approach taken with incident investigations.

  • 2011-08-09 19:33:45

    In September 2011 Thinking Dimensions received accreditation for their unique Incident and Problem Management workshops and consulting services. 

Recent Blog Posts

  • 2012-05-19 20:13:00

    SAY the phrase process improvement and watch the eyes of a CEO roll back in their head. They recoil from conversations about the touted virtues of process improvement methods like Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing or Business Process Re-engineering as they are inclined, and rightfully so, to talk abou...

  • 2012-05-18 19:35:01

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  • 2012-05-18 06:05:17

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  • 2012-05-09 10:29:31

    Managers or CEOs seeking to improve the way the company makes pricing decisions need to implement changes starting from the way the organization collects, sorts and uses data as an input in selecting the best performing alternatives. As an example, one of our clients is a leading company that desi...

  • 2012-05-07 15:17:19

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