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Ambiguity in Goals Handcuffs Business Performance
Taking these steps to eliminate lack of clarity in goals will expedite business performance   more

By John Case






Is Your Strategy Still Valid and Viable?
8 Questions CEO’s Must Ask to Test Alignment and Competitiveness


CEOs and senior leaders must ensure their strategy can meet and surpass the global challenges and turmoil of today’s environment.  more


By Tim Lewko






Everybody is the President of Something - Aligning your people for performance and accountability


CEO's and Senior Leadership must have a defined process in place that allows employees to take ownership for their area of responsibility, while guaranteeing alignment with key company goals.  more


By John Case





Organizational Scarring – Too Many Strategic Initiatives
How to Prevent Unintentional Undermining of Employee Focus and Performance


CEOs must strive to have the critical few organizational initiatives strategy based and connected to measureable goals. If the thinking behind the initiatives is not made visible with clear criteria the company’s change capacity is sorely diminished. more


By Tim Lewko





Maintaining Competitiveness and Margins in Tender Markets
Helping customers without destroying your balance sheet


Companies must understand the value clients derive from their products and systematically decide who they should tender/not tender to. more


By Diego Miglioranzi





Mind Based Competition: Building the Golden Bridge to China 


Organizations are now forced to make customer, supplier and competitor decisions regarding China. more
By Tim Lewko






Seize Control of Your Business: The Path to Simple Process Management


Leaders must select an improvement method that is simple to understand, can be transferred/learned by internal resources, and delivers the sustained results through a simple DESIGN, EXECUTE and CONTROL structure. more
By Keith Pelkey





Results through Role Clarity

Role Clarity specifies the "hard" deliverables and "soft" behaviors of human interaction that assist achievement of organizational goals. more
By Bill Dunn





























    
    



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IT Incident Investigation - Are Your Staff Really Good at This?


Does your staff have the right tools to Investigate and eliminate unwanted IT costs? The most challenging question for CIOs and CTOs to address. more
By Matt Fourie





The Three Secrets to Supercharging Your MIM (Major Incident Investigation)


Nothing beats a well-trained skilled team with specific roles and good leadership. more
By Matt Fourie 





How Good is Your IT Incident Investigation?


Empower your IT Professionals to become yuor best source for solutions. more
By Matt Fourie 












Featured Insights and Articles

 

Poor Decisions Destroy a Company's Ability to Drive Performance
Five Steps to Ensure Your Organization Improves its Decision Making


CEO’s and Senior Leadership must remove the barriers that lead to poor decisions and invest in decision making as a fundamental management competency that drives strategic value and sustainability.  more


By Tim Lewko





Why Half of Decisions Fail?
Managers Need Information to Solve Problems, and Most of Them Do Not Know How to Get It 


The most common source of wasted time, effort, scarce funds, and lost opportunities in any kind of organization or in any kind of activity are those decisions that aren’t good and don’t work as well as they should.  more


By Chuck Kepner





Game Changer: Are You In The Game?
Recently, TD Partner John Case delivered the keynote address at the Furniture Today Leadership Conference in Naples, Florida. The conference had over 340 attendees representing almost every major furniture supplier and retailer in North America. more