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The Engagement Playbook

Stephanie Hayes — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:45:37 -0800

We have been working with one of our clients for over a year now, helping them execute on their vision for engagement with their more important stakeholder groups.

It’s all about Strategy Execution…

Jame Healy — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:31:27 -0700

“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without Strategy is the noise before the defeat.”

Sun Tsu (”The Art of War”)
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Leadership in Micro Process Improvement

Stephanie Hayes — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 09:12:00 -0700

I recently read this article posted by Abbey Carpenter, describing the need for a specific set of characteristics in leadership in order to make a process improvement exercise viable and successful.

Ms. Carpenter describes a number of process improvement methodologies, including Six Sigma and TQM, but I think the resounding message is that any process improvement exercise will benefit from the same characteristics.

The Change Formula – Start at the Top?

Stephanie Hayes — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Most of the work I do involves business transformation, which inevitably involves change. For many, it’s their kryptonite. Whether or not they recognise the value of, and even participate in the events leading to the change, when the rubber hits the road, more often than not change is stalled due to one (or more) of the following conditions:

Back to Business, the Old Fashioned Way

Jame Healy — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 14:56:12 -0800

Regardless of when and how the current economic “contraction” reverses itself, I think we can agree that the face of business as we know it is going to change… at least I’m hoping it does.

I remember in the late 90’s, when I was an analyst for a venture capital firm, the number of “pimply-faced" self-styled entrepreneurs that would come in with a hastily written business plan, seeking 7- and 8-figure series A financing. Without exception these business plans had one thing in common: no prospect of positive operating cashflow or income in my lifetime.

Collaborate is an Action Word

Stephanie Hayes — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:26:58 -0800

Collaborate.

Learning How to Learn.

Stephanie Hayes — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 07:30:23 -0700

There was a recent post highlighted on GovLoop entitled “You’re So Dumb!”: The Next Generation” by Bill Brantley, which focuses on th

Malcolm Gladwell - “Innovation & Limitation" (from the F5 EXPO in Vancouver, Canada)

Rick Goossen — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 09:00:00 -0700

“We celebrate the benefits, but not the costs, of technology,” said Malcolm Gladwell, at the F5 Expo on April 7th. Gladwell is the author of well-know books such as Outliers and The Tipping Point. His stock in trade is a contrarian viewpoint rooted in connecting facts for a unique analysis. Gladwell addressed three key points of the limitations of technology.

Building Corporate Value through Corporate Social Responsibility

Rick Goossen — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:19:03 -0700